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storky111

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According to Bedau, an adequate cost/benefit analysis of the death penalty:
 
 

a. would be irrelevant to the morality of capital punishment.
  b. would be impossible, given all the factors that must be taken into account.
  c. might show that the costs outweigh the benefits.
  d. is unlikely to be done in the near future.



Question 2

According to Bedau, the death penalty:
 
 

a. deters an executed murderer from killing again.
  b. can never deter an executed murderer from killing again.
  c. deters only those executed murderers who would have killed again.
  d. none of the above




bitingbit

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Answer to Question 1

c.

Answer to Question 2

b.



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