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Whether or not the experiment of the lawyer and the banker has proven that capital punishment is less cruel than life imprisonment is debatable even at the end of the narrative of "The Bet." It has, however, demonstrated that forced isolation is a terrible thing.
According to Chekhov in The Bet, he states,“Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly” (Chekhov,1). This quote proves that even though the banker thinks killing themselves are bad, but dying slowly is better than dying at once.
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