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/^t/First of all the state is an institution based on the general agreement of the people. Thus, maintaining that it is the state that uses capital punishment, seems to be a tentative euphemism aimed at making our responsibility rather remote. I personally think, that it is the society and not the state, who permits to eradicate criminals. Hence I intend to use people rather than state as a referent in this essay.