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What was one of the primary problems with punishing many different crimes with death in colonial america? we have four options here.
00:09
So is it because it's more expensive to hang somebody? no, it was much cheaper at the time to just hang somebody because they didn't have the full kind of legal system that we have now.
00:20
Whereas it, nowadays, it is more expensive to use the death penalty because there are so many appeals, so much more work goes into it.
00:27
Does it demonstrate failings of the system? that's more than ethical question.
00:31
It's still people would feel that these crimes should be punishable by death.
00:35
They sure do it for time.
00:37
So that's not relevant.
00:40
Was it widely reviled? not really, rarely so.
00:44
It was a different time.
00:45
People were a lot more comfortable with the death penalty then, including for minor crimes.
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D is the answer here.
00:51
It's encouraged the killing of victims so criminals could avoid arrest.
00:56
Same punishment either way.
00:58
Might as well go...