Capital Punishment

This day in age murderers' actions are getting more and more incomprehensive. They
are no longer just committing murder: they are torturing, mutilating, and engaging in grossly
inappropriate acts against fellow human beings. Behaviors such as this will continue if nothing
is done to stop them. The death penalty is a humane way to punish the convicted and deter these
gruesome acts. Early as 1930, we can find the first recorded execution. Between the times of 1930
to 1967 there was a recorded number of 3,859 people executed. The following nine years would
bring victory for those against capital punishment, there was no executions done in this time
frame. Gregg vs. Georgia, Supreme Court of 1976 made a ruling that "the death penalty does not
violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The death penalty has
been accepted by thirty-nine states of America (Newton, 1983). One of the basics in......

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Title: Ultimate Punishment
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