Why include a deny statement in an ACL, even though the implicit deny at the end of the ACL will
block traffic as needed?

A.
There is no reason to include the deny statement.

B.
As a back-up, in case the implicit deny does not work.

C.
You can view the hit counters with the show access-list command.

D.
You can enable the turbo ACL feature for individual ACLs.