Word: wronging
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...innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention. Nor is it the fact that we know that capital punishment is not useful as a deterrent. Rather, what states like Michigan and Massachusetts have recognized is that the death penalty is itself inherently unjust and wrong...
...desire to seek the death penalty is a natural response to violent and serious crime, crime that cannot and should not be treated lightly. Such crime cries out for and demands punishment. Punishment, though, is only good inasmuch as it serves to preserve order and safety, redress the wrong done, and--to the extent possible--correct the offender. Only when these three conditions are met does any punishment further the common good, the most basic purpose of all punishment. When we choose the death penalty, what we are choosing is a climate of death. Such a climate is hardly beneficial...
...begin with our laws against murder, saying that it is wrong to take an innocent life. We believe enough in the dignity of life that we cannot allow those who are underprivileged in our society to lead degrading lives. So we have welfare and Social Security, always two important and controversial political issues. We even believe so much in the dignity of all human life that we have laws against discrimination, saying that all humans, simply because they are human beings, deserve certain rights. To say that questions of human dignity have no place in the American political scene...
...They were in the wrong," Averell added...
...have an I.D., but every now and then I'll go to Grafton. But I can count the times. I smoke...a lot. My mom has no shame, she will go anywhere to find out what's going on in my life and there's nothing wrong in her mind with going through my shit...