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Argument: Loved ones should not have to support a killer in prison

Issue Report: Death penalty

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“The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible?”. Casey’s Critical Thinking – Take, for example, a murderer who took the life of a teenager. The parents of the victim will be among the taxpayers that pay for his meals and his cable television. Should he choose to take advantage of college courses the prison may offer, the parents of the victim will be indirectly financing those expenses as well. Nothing could be further from justice. It is of this type of situation that the abolitionist approves. Somewhere along the line, their priorities have been turned upside down.