1. Justice or Just a Waste?
Kara Sobolewski

2. Capital
Punishment IS
NO LONGER
NEEDED IN
OUR SOCIETY
TODAY

3. “When you use murder to end
murder you guarantee murder
will NEVER END.”

4. THE DEATH PENALTY IS
BEING ABOLISHED ALL OVER

5. 17 STATESIN THE U.S.
HAVE ABOLISHED THE
DEATH PENALTY

6. COUNTRIES
ACROSS THE
WORLD
ARE ENDING
CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT!

7. CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT
GOES
AGAINST THE
EIGHTH
AMENDMENT

8. EIGHTH AMENDMENT SAYS NO
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNISHMENT

9. DEATH
PENALTY
DOES NOT
DETER
CRIME

10. CRIMINALS ARE NOT THINKING
ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT THEY
COULD RECEIVE WHEN THEY ARE
COMMITTING THE CRIME

11. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS
UNRELIABLE

12. MANY OF THE
PEOPLE PUT TO
DEATH OR ON
DEATH ROW ARE
INNOCENT

13. FRANK LEE
SMITH
DIED AFTER
BEING ON
DEATH ROW
FOR
14 YEARS!

14. AFTER HIS DEATH,
HE WAS
PROVEN INNOCENT
WITH A
DNA TEST!

15. CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT IS
MORE
EXPENSIVE
THAN LIFE IN
PRISON

16. THAT MONEY COULD BE
USED TO HELP OUR SOCIETY

17. OUR SOCIETY WOULD
BENEFIT
TREMENDOUSLY
WITHOUT
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!

18. WORKS CITED
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