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Modern Death Penalty Is A Failed Experiment By David Von Dregle

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"Bungled Executions. Backlogged Courts. And Three More Reasons the Modern Death Penalty Is a Failed Experiment” is an article written by David Von Dregle and published in time magazine. In this article, the author believes the death penalty is wrong. He begins his essay by giving facts about the death penalty and the moral implications of why the death penalty is chosen citing the case of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber. He shows the logically reasoning as to why, as a society, we are willing to give the death penalty. However, he makes the point that Tsarnaev will not be executed soon as “he is one of more than 60 federal prisoners under sentence of execution in a country where only three federal death sentences have been carried

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