"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

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"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

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