The Ineffectiveness of the Death Penalty in our Legal System

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You are sentenced to death by lethal injection. This is what so many people have heard, and few have lived to tell about. Capital punishment was introduced in the middle ages as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. Capital punishment gave courts the right to enforce one of the most severe punishments known to man, the death penalty. The punishment however can and has been applied …

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…period of time. The human race hasn't grown by staying the same, but by changing the mistakes of the past to make the future a better place to live. The death penalty is broken, disliked, and too expensive too be considered anything but a mistake and we, as a people, need to recognize this mistake and overcome it to make the future a safer and greater place to live in for future generations to come.