So there seems to be a significant number of Americans who believe the death-penalty system costs innocent people their lives, but who nevertheless want to keep it around and even expand it.

由此可见，有相当大一部分美国人相信死刑制度会让无辜的人失去生命，但是他们却想要坚持甚至扩大死刑的覆盖范围。

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Death penalty is the most archaic and severest penalty among the penalty system, which is originated from consanguineous Vengeance of barbarism society.

死刑源于原始社会的血亲复仇，它是刑罚体系中最古老、最严厉的一种刑罚。

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The aim of death penalty is the -cornerstone of the whole death penalty system.

死刑的目的是整个死刑制度确定和存在的基石。

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Recent studies of the federal death penalty system reveal that the average cost of defending a capital case are at least eight times those for defense of a non-death penalty case.

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Clearly, a system of justice culminating in the death penalty has had little deterrent effect.

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After Illinois imposed its moratorium, supporters of the death penalty claimed then that the system in that state was uniquely awful.

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