Capital Punishment
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In the year 2002 71 people were executed by 13 different states. To some this may seem like an excessive amount of being put to death. However, when you consider that in the year 2002 there was more than 3581 prisoners on death row 71 is just a tiny drop out of a huge barrel. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm)
Today in America there are 38 states with the death penalty. This means that there is 12 states without the
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the benefits of capital punishment is that it is a crime deterrent. If someone sees a person being walked to his execution on the news it will make that person think about his actions more closely. If he is ever put in the position where he would like to kill someone and knows that he has a chance of being killed if he carries it out, he might consider that before he completes the killing.
the benefits of capital punishment is that it is a crime deterrent. If someone sees a person being walked to his execution on the news it will make that person think about his actions more closely. If he is ever put in the position where he would like to kill someone and knows that he has a chance of being killed if he carries it out, he might consider that before he completes the killing.