with violent punishments. It is argued that criminals should
             instead be given life in prison, where they can contemplate their
             wrongdoing, and that it is just as effective to keep prisoners off the
             streets for the rest of their lives as it would be to kill them. Killing
             them, according to some, is simply an inhumane act with no purpose.
             However, Whatever one thinks of that claim in the abstract, the fact is
             that no jury has the legal authority to prevent government officials years
             or decades in the future from offering clemency or parole after all--or to
             prevent judges at some later date from finding grounds for a new trial."
             (Schaefer) This means that killing a murderer is the only way to fully
             assure that person will not wind up back on the streets, because even a
             life sentence without parole may be overturned some day. It is also said
             that the death penalty is simply the most effect
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