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Ever since I participated in a debate on the death penalty in high school, in 1963, I have opposed it for all the reasons articulated by Sunil Dutta in "Kill the Death Penalty" [Feb. 26]. I appreciated his juxtaposing total homicides--and the appallingly high rate of unsolved homicides--with the number of executions, showing the arbitrary nature of the imposition of the death penalty.
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