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Radelet, Michael L. "The Incremental Retributive Impact of a Death Sentence over Life without Parole." University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, vol. 49, no. 4, Summer2016, pp. 795-815. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=117675731&site=eds-live.

This source talks about the effects of the death penalty on the family members of the accused as well as life without parole as an alternative to the death penalty. This article talks about not only does the death penalty does not provide any benefits to the victim's family, it also hurts the accused's family as well as other innocent people around him. The article looks at the effects of the families of both victim and the accused in situations where they have been given the death penalty or life without parole. It then discusses the benefits of other options to the death penalty such as life without parole. I will use this article to bring up life without parole as an alternative to the death penalty. I will also use this article to show that the death penalty does not really provide any benefit to the victim's family. I will also use this to discuss the negative impact on the accused's family and how there is no real moral benefit to the death penalty either.