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Capital punishment policies have significant moral, political, economic, and legal impacts. Morally corporal punishment is unjustified because it violates ethics and human rights. Loewy (2018) commented that sometimes innocent people are inflicted with pain and deprived of their right to live. Economically resources are wasted to perpetuate capital punishment. Limited funds that could be used to prevent crime by creating jobs and educating people are utilized spend on punishment. Politically corporal punishment increases the tax burden on people as the government seeks to raise funds to finance the process alongside other judicial systems. It costs the government 1.26m to execute death penalty cases, while taking cases through incarceration process require only $740,000 (Loewy, 2018). Socially, the death penalty reduces family size and cultivates poverty. When an individual is punished through death, the number of family members reduces, and it is worse if they are the family's breadwinner. The dependents will not only lack something to eat but will also...