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Capital Punishment, Should it be used as a way of disciplining criminals?
Title: Capital Punishment, Should it be used as a way of disciplining criminals?
Category: Law & Government / Supreme Court
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Capital Punishment, Should it be used as a way of disciplining criminals?
There is one question that has always brought about controversy.
Should capital punishment be used as a way of disciplining criminals? Over
the past twenty years, there has been an enormous increase in violent crimes.
It seems logical that a person is less likely to commit a given act if by doing so
he will suffer swift and certain punishment of a horrible kind. As most
Americans agree, death is the only appropriate punishment for …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…in the electric chair, William Kemmler, on August 6, 1890, attracted
almost as much attention as the presidential election.
Moore, David W.
1994 Majority advocates death penalty for teenage killers.
The Gallup Poll Monthly 348 (Sept.): 2-6.
Sutherland, Edwin H.
1925 Murder and the death penalty. Journal of Criminal Law
and Criminology 15:522-36.
Gallup Report
1985 Support for the death penalty highest in half-century.
Gallup Report 232-233 (Jan./Feb.): 3-10.
1986 The death penalty. Gallup Report 244-245 (Jan.-Feb.):
10-16.
1991 Death penalty support remains strong. Gallup Report
309 (June): 40-45.
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