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Life in prison is not necessarily more effective than capital punishment. A murderer who is dead can never kill again. A person who is serving life in prison can still kill inmates and prison guards, although the chances of that are really small. Life in prison is more effective in the way that it costs less money to keep someone in jail than it does to have them executed. A person who is serving life in prison and later found out to be innocent can be freed and not be in prison anymore.

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hmm....that's a tough one.

It depends on the crime that they did really. Eg murdering an infant you would want justice right?? Some people seem to think that the death penalty is the best way, however personally I think life in prison without parol could be close too.

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for murderers serial killers its capital punishment so that things cant get worse and if its life in prison then serial killers might stir up problems

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βˆ™ 13y ago

No - the taking of life impoverishes us all.

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