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To your #3 point, one argument I've heard on this point is you want capital punishment for 1st degree murder to give a reason for the criminal not to kill their victim in order to better cover their tracks. That implies a level of rationality in the criminal mind which might be overly optimistic at that point, but it seems like a reasonable argument.


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