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    Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished? In the United States all 50 states have some form of the death penalty. 35+ states use lethal injection‚ 9 use electrocution‚ 11 use the gas chamber‚ 3 use hanging and 3 use a firing squad (Methods). In Ohio we use lethal injection as a sole method and in 2009 Ohio adopted a one-drug protocol using only sodium pentathol (Methods). People on death row are usually put there for committing violent crimes. Ohio currently has 142 people on death row‚ which is down

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    The Death Penalty: An Unjustified “Punishment” The death penalty is a capital punishment given to those who have committed the worst of worst crimes. Some individuals believe that the death penalty is like an eye for an eye; if one kills they should be killed. However‚ others look at the bigger picture‚ which is how we are supposed to decrease the amount of people who commit crimes like murder‚ if the only punishment we have to offer is to kill them. Seems a bit hypocritical. There have a

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    Death Penalty‚ Revenge or Justice? by: Tiffany Efni Death penalty‚ or also known as the capital punishment‚ is one of the most debated topics in the judicial system of the world. It has existed long before 2500 BC‚ when Hammurabi (Mesopotamia civilization) created the first written law called ‘Codex Hammurabi’. The principal of the codex is generally ‘eye for an eye‚ tooth for a tooth’. At that time‚ it was most likely if a person committed a capital crime‚ such as murder or theft‚ they were executed

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    DEATH PENALTY: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence‚ while the actual process of killing the person is an execution. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis‚ literally "regarding the head" (referring

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    Death Penalty Should Exist The problem with death penalty is very controversial. People divided over how to punish criminal. When a person did something wrong or broke the law‚ he would get punished‚ such as warnings‚ fines‚ detention‚ fixed-time imprisonment‚ life imprisonment and death. According to his mistake how serious‚ he would be sentenced to which punishment. But some people thought that everyone has made mistakes. So we should just give a small punishment to criminal rather than death penalty

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    exist anymore? Capital punishment or the death penalty is where a person can be put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime that they have committed. Capital

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    Look Into the Mandatory Death Penalty in Singapore The death penalty is a punishment reserved for the most heinous of crimes – "capital offences" such as murder or treason. These criminals will be put to death if found guilty of their crimes. The method most commonly used in jurisdictions today is that of lethal injection‚ where the criminal is administered a mixed dose of drugs (typically a barbiturate‚ paralytic‚ and potassium solution) to sedate and then cause death. The drugs will first put

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    Pros and Cons of the Death Penalty The death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime. The death penalties are usually carried out for retribution of a heinous murder committed‚ such as aggravated murder‚ felony killing or contract killing. Every state handles what method they want to use to put a person to death according to their state laws. The death penalty is given by lethal injection‚ electrocution; gas chamber firing squad and hanging are some

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    Death Penalty: Blessing or a Curse? Imagine it’s getting dark and your child still hasn’t returned from school. Everybody in the house is worried sick. All of you start calling for help and looking around the area only to find out that your thirteen year old daughter has been viciously raped and brutally murdered in an alley by her own maths teacher. How would you feel? Would you be okay with him going to a prison with a roof on his head‚ letting him eat three square meals a day and getting the

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    Corporal punishment can be defined as physical punishment that is meted out to someone because they have done something wrong. More often than not corporal punishment involves the use of canes to beat someone. Corporal punishment is normally meted out to children in schools by teachers and at homes by parents or guardians. The advantages of corporal punishment It helps to serve as a deterrent. When children see that someone has been whipped for misbehaving‚ they try not to do similar things

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