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Death Penalty Tim Kravchunovsky En109/Professor Mathews Progress/Completion Report 8 May, 2001 The Debate On Capital Punishment What act by the United States government kills almost a hundred people every year? The United States Department of Justice legally executes criminals who commit certain crimes. The crimes for which a person can be executed for are named Capital offenses, thus the name Capital Punishment. The debate over capital punishment originates in the seventeenth century and still continues …

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