Capital punishment has long been used as a form of deterrent for crime. The first real laws involving death as a penalty come from the first set of written laws, The Code of Hammurabi in 1750 B.C. And also according to the Bible the death penalty was used for many crimes such as murder, Exodus 21:12 to fornication, Deut. 22:13. Later the Greek used an extreme form of law, which was the Draconian Code that used the death penalty for every crime. In England during the reigns of King Canute and William the Conqueror the death penalty was not used, but there brutal forms of interrogation often resulted in death. English law recognized seven different crimes as capital offenses, treason, murder, larceny, burglary, rape and arson, which I believe should all be capital crimes today. Efforts to abolish the death penalty began to build near the begging of the 19th century. Many countries had repealed most of its capital crimes, and several states in the U.S. led by Michigan in 1847 abolished......

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