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		casiotone on Aug 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-T... 100% of people who receive the death penalty are murdered. This is unacceptable.

ugotsta on Aug 7, 2018 [–]

murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.

If a legal system grants the death penalty, it isn't murder under that legal system.

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