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Letter: A practical opinion on why we should keep the death penalty

Related Topics: Opinion, Capital punishment

On March 4, Jean Hill delivered an opinion titled “Arguments for death penalty are flawed.” I’m sure, besides me, there are other Catholics and those of other faiths who find her argument flawed. Now for my honest, practical opinion of why we should keep the death penalty.

Every day most of us in Utah go to a special room, sit on a porcelain apparatus, take care of business, and pull a handle eliminating waste which is delivered to the sewer. Every week most of us in Utah put out a large plastic container at curb side the content of which is garbage collected during the week.