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    have been 1‚188 people executed (death procon). Numerous capital punishment cases are the execution of murderers; it can also be implemented for treason‚ espionage‚ and other crimes. The types of capital punishment include hanging‚ firing squad‚ electrocution‚ lethal gas and lethal injection. It is widely debated on whether or not these punishments are considered cruel and unusual. To this day capital punishment remains a controversial topic. The death penalty roots back to the 1700s B.C to The

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    Government Although the death penalty may seem inhuman to many people‚ it is effective through the cost of death vs. life in prison‚ income level‚ morality and irrevocable mistakes. The death penalty is only used for the most harsh and cruel crimes. It’s surprising to me that this punishment is not a federal law. Every state has its choice to make this penalty legal or not. Seventeen states in America do not use the death penalty‚ which means that 33 states do use it. It is

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    THE DEATH PENALTY Imagine waking up one morning and deciding to kill all your classmates at gun point for no apparent reason. At the scene‚ you were arrested and charged with genocide. You were found guilty and as your punishment you are sentenced to the death penalty; even though‚ it was your first offense. Wouldn’t you think that putting someone in prison for life would be much more reasonable for their first offence instead of sentencing them to the death penalty? Well‚ here are some interesting

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    As of June 2002‚ the mandate was responsible in bringing 1‚007 (including women‚ minors‚ and aged) inmates to death row at the New Bilibid Prison and the Correctional Institution for Women in Manila (FLAG 2002). The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) estimated that the numbers were higher since inmates sentenced from the provincial prisons are still waiting to be transferred to the death row in the capital. FLAG further stated that the majority of the prisoners are poor and barely educated. Sixty

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    Topic: (Pro) Death Penalty Should society be forced to hide behind locked doors? Wouldn’t the world be a great place if crime rates were diminishing rather than inclining? How could the dream of safer streets and happier homes ever come to be? Capital punishment or also known as the death penalty is the assassination of an individual by a state which serves as punishment for committing unlawful actions; also giving retribution on behalf of the victims. The death penalty could be the

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    is more appropriate than the death penalty. The specific aim of this research is to understand and examine whether sociodemographic characteristics are related to attitudes about the death penalty. Executions of the falsely accused‚ the emotional impact of the victims’ family statement‚ crimes that are punishable by death how does the impact of the death penalty detour crime on our current society. These are all significant reasons to discovering if the death penalty is morally ethical. In

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    of View: Death Penalty‚ 2009 Database: Points of View Reference Center Thesis: Capital punishment is useless as a deterrent‚ morally indefensible‚ discriminatory in practice‚ and prone to errors that may have led to the execution of wrongfully convicted people. Its continuing legality in the United States is critically undermining American moral stature around the world. The Supreme Court should bring the United States in line with the rest of the civilized world and hold that death is a cruel

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    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 to execution by beheading). METHODS

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    Continue with its Death Penalty? "As if one crime of such nature‚ done by a single man‚ acting individually‚ can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men‚ acting collectively" (Lewis Lawes‚ warden of Sing Sing prison in NY in the 1920s and 30s.) Many people think that is right to have payback over something that has been done to them and other think that it is brutal and goes against human morals. Also many people often questioned whether it ’s fair to continue with the death penalty and whether

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    Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment Capital punishment or the death penalty is the act of killing or executing a person‚ who was found guilty of a serious crime‚ by the government.  Without a doubt‚ executions are considered the ultimate punishment for a crime‚ because there is no repeal from death. The logical alternative for capital punishment is life in prison without parole‚ yet a lot of nations still perform the death penalty. This is because the debate whether capital punishment is ethical

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