We would like you to classify each of the following sets of argument pairs (discussing Death Penalty)  into either SIMILAR or NOT SIMILAR. A pair of arguments is considered SIMILAR if the arguments are about the same FACET (making the same argument), and is considered NOT SIMILAR if they do not have the same FACET. A FACET is a low level issue that often reoccurs in many arguments in support of the author's stance or in attacking the other author's position.

[Q]: Sent1: If there was another factor associated with the increase in the murder rate and not the death penalty, then the article itself would have pointed it out.
 Sent2: Well according to your own paper, it says that you can't prove that the death penalty increases the murder rate.
[A]: Similar


[Q]: Sent1: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
 Sent2: Too much racism in this country to have the death penalty.
[A]: Not similar


[Q]: Sent1: The death penalty is usually given as a sentence in place of lifetime in a max security prison without parole.
 Sent2: And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
[A]:
Not similar


