The not so Clean-Cut Issue of Capital Punishment <Tab/>Former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, writes about a New York man who while serving four life sentences in a New York prison for murder, effectively lured a woman corrections officer into an office where he then strangled her and mutilated her body. This man can only get more life sentences for his actions because New York, at the time, did …
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…not be punished any further than perhaps the death penalty should be applied in order to save lives. Also if a man can be convicted with no doubt at all of a heinous crime deemed worthy of death, than again perhaps the death penalty should be applied. It should always be applied with great caution because there is always the chance of sending an innocent man to an irreversible fate. <Tab/>