Capital Punishment
Date Submitted: 01/25/2001 00:48:26
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 7 pages (1979 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 7 pages (1979 words)
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THE DEATH PENALTY
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Since our nation's founding, the government -- colonial, federal and state
-- has punished murder and, until recent years, rape with the ultimate
sanction: death. More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since
colonial times, most of them in the early 20th Century. By the 1930s, as
many as 150 people were executed each year. However, public outrage and
legal challenges caused the practice to wane. By 1967, capital punishment
had virtually …
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…is a barbaric remnant of uncivilized society. It is
immoral in principle, and unfair and discriminatory in practice. It
assures the execution of some innocent people. As a remedy for crime, it
has no purpose and no effect. Capital punishment ought to be abolished
_now_.
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| Capital punishment does not deter crime. |
| Capital punishment is discriminatory and arbitrary. |
| Capital punishment assures the execution of innocent people. |
| Capital punishment has no place in civilized society. |
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