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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hearing is scheduled for Friday to discuss issues related to the death penalty .
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For death penalty adherents, the pendulum has finally swung their way: California will enforce the death penalty more quickly.
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If we still had the death penalty they'd be hanged, anyway.
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It said the death penalty dehumanised the world by putting vengeance first.
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Other changes included the abolition of the death penalty .
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That I feel that the death penalty is not an answer to the problems at hand.
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The outgoing criminal code had provided for the death penalty for 18 kinds of crimes.
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When Ronald Smith confessed, he had requested the death penalty .