Capital Punishment For Murderers

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3. (Should be rewritten as, does it cost more to execute the prisoner, or to keep him alive. This is a bit of a dangerous notion, though, as it might lead states to decide to make additional currently non-capital crimes, capital instead, in order to save money.)

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I don't know about other countries, but the United States constitution states that the only two capital crimes are murder and treason.