ly minority persons that will be affected are those who commit a violent crime. Opponents also charge that the potential for a life sentence will cause perpetrators to kill their victims to prevent testimony against them. Proponents contend that the law will remove violent offenders from the streets permanently.
The list of federal capital offenses was expanded in the crime bill of 1994. Arguments for and against the death penalty are well known to every rational adult American who is not mentally defective. Neither side is likely to be persuaded by the arguments of the other. The sales of new weapons described by a list of 19 different types of assault weapons were prohibited by the crime bill of 1994. Proponents point to the numbers of violent crimes in which assault weapons are used. Opponents repeat the tired and spurious arguments of the National Rifle Assoc
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