Capital Punishment <Tab/>In the past, people have invariably felt that if they had been wronged in some way, it was their right to take vengeance on the person who had wronged them. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined the rights of criminals and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for retribution. However, a growing number of …
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…further with people running around on private vendettas. <Tab/>Even with these facts and arguments, the government refuses to fully restore the death penalty. So all citizens can do now is protest to the government, wait, and hope that it will not take an even higher crime rate and the loss of many more innocent lives before law makers realize what a mistake they made in 1976 by totally abolishing capital punishment.