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27 April 2012
Death penalty
The death penalty is one time punishment, usually imposed on one, by the court of law. It follows as a punishment against acts caused against humanity. One may receive a death penalty after being proved guilty of an act like murder. Mostly, a crime involving death receives a penalty of death. One may also be sentenced to death after being proved guilty of robbery with violence. All these are crimes that the criminal justice court endeavours to eliminate from a given society. That is why the criminal justice system has embraced the death penalty for a long time to punish such inhuman crimes.
However, as it has been the tradition, this penalty is imposed on a criminal found guilty at the discretion of the judge in line with the law governing a given country. This implies that not all murder cases or robbery with violence cases has been punished by the death penalty. The circumstances surrounding the crime committed according to the discretion of the judge will influence such a penalty.
Many countries have embraced such a method of eliminating crimes to do with murder through death penalties. This followed after the first man was sentenced to death in 1622. This was the execution of Daniel Frank charged with some theft crime. It was not even murder. From that time, this form of punishment became a common phenomenon. As some countries limited the death penalty to murder and robbery with violence cases, some countries went an extra mile of including several other crimes. For instance, the People’s Republic of China uses this punishment against some crimes that are non-violent. An example of such a crime onto which the death sentence is applicable in this state is a crime involving drug and general business. Their main intention, perhaps, is to discourage and totally reduce some of these crimes. Nevertheless, even though some nations have fully embraced this punishment, some countries have totally outlawed it. They do not use
27 April 2012
Death penalty
The death penalty is one time punishment, usually imposed on one, by the court of law. It follows as a punishment against acts caused against humanity. One may receive a death penalty after being proved guilty of an act like murder. Mostly, a crime involving death receives a penalty of death. One may also be sentenced to death after being proved guilty of robbery with violence. All these are crimes that the criminal justice court endeavours to eliminate from a given society. That is why the criminal justice system has embraced the death penalty for a long time to punish such inhuman crimes.
However, as it has been the tradition, this penalty is imposed on a criminal found guilty at the discretion of the judge in line with the law governing a given country. This implies that not all murder cases or robbery with violence cases has been punished by the death penalty. The circumstances surrounding the crime committed according to the discretion of the judge will influence such a penalty.
Many countries have embraced such a method of eliminating crimes to do with murder through death penalties. This followed after the first man was sentenced to death in 1622. This was the execution of Daniel Frank charged with some theft crime. It was not even murder. From that time, this form of punishment became a common phenomenon. As some countries limited the death penalty to murder and robbery with violence cases, some countries went an extra mile of including several other crimes. For instance, the People’s Republic of China uses this punishment against some crimes that are non-violent. An example of such a crime onto which the death sentence is applicable in this state is a crime involving drug and general business. Their main intention, perhaps, is to discourage and totally reduce some of these crimes. Nevertheless, even though some nations have fully embraced this punishment, some countries have totally outlawed it. They do not use
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