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    Debate: Against the death penalty

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    The death penalty should be abolished. There is no difference between injecting poison in a convict's vein in a hospital room in the US with few spectators and firing at him in the midst of a public place in Saudi Arabia. The consequence remains the same: we kill a man or a woman. The death penalty is not as clean as it seems to be. How many innocent people have already been killed? How many men and women have already been executed on racist grounds? There are some answers to those bitter questions. And just to give you an example, in the US since 1973, more than 90 innocent people have already been electrocuted or poisoned after a wrong judgement. The death penalty is not as clean as it seems to be. How many people have already suffered a long and mortal agony because the chair did not work as it was supposed to or because the needle did not quickly find the vein?

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    Joseph Clark was brought to the Southern Ohio Correctional jail to be executed by lethal injection. It took 22 minutes for the execution technicians to find a vein suitable for insertion of the catheter. The vein collapsed shortly after the start of the injection and Clark's arm began to swell. He raised his head off the gurney and said five times, "It doesn't work. It doesn't work." The curtains surrounding the gurney were then closed while the technicians worked for 30 minutes to find another vein. (...)

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