Introduction 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 …showed first 75 words of 6027 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6027 total…pages Hugo Adam Bedau, “The Case Against the Death Penalty,” American Civil Liberties Union1982. 24 pages. Stephen E. Schonebaum (editor), “Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime?” Greenhaven Press, Inc. 1998. 95 Pages. News Matters (video), “The Death Penalty Right or Wrong?” Knowledge Unlimited, Inc. 1997. approximately 15 minutes. Gary E. McCuuen, “The Death Penalty and the Disadvantaged” Gary E. McCuen Publications Inc. 1997. 168 pages. Lynn S. Branham & Sheldon Krantz, “Sentencing, Corrections, and Prisoner’s Rights,” St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co. 1994. 338 pages.