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…Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and roughly 35 convicts are executed annually . The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United States today, it is cruel, sadistic, appalling, and final. Criminals…

…still has symptoms of racial bias. This racial bias was first recognized by the Supreme Court in Fruman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972). The Supreme Court Justices decide that the death penalty was being handed out unfairly and according to Gest (1996…

…. Capital punishment is of course the action of taking one life for another, usually the life of someone who has taken the lives of others. A group of people who are usually in favour of the death penalty is the victim's relatives; the victim's relatives usually…

…Capital punishment has been a cause for debate for many years, and people continue to disagree on the topic. There are many reasons why the death penalty should be used, but the three most important are that it deters potential murderers from committing…

…, the State of Washington has carried out four executions. But keep in mind the language of the law for the death penalty states that a death sentence must be proportionate to "similar cases". In this case, with Gary Ridgway, no one has led officials…

…of prevention. In no way has the death penalty shown that it stops or lowers homicide rates, in fact, in some cases, it seems to have made homicide rates actually increase. Another reason that a Utilitarian would support against capital punishment would be cost…

…, has brought about a mixture of emotions concerning capital punishment and its application. The question that is at the base of several arguments is simply this: Is the death penalty justifiable or not? Plagued by the issues concerning the death penalty…

…innocent people. I believe that it is a just and efficacious punishment for those who commit crimes bad enough to deserve death. Now does the death penalty truly deter crimes and murder? This question is in the center of a big political controversy over…

…innocent people. I believe that it is a just and efficacious punishment for those who commit crimes bad enough to deserve death. Now does the death penalty truly deter crimes and murder? This question is in the center of a big political controversy over…

…for four hours before his mother found him. Matthew Lilly was allowed to plea bargain to drop the death penalty. He pleaded “no contest” to the charge, which means he doesn’t admit to the murder or deny it. He was found guilty and received life in prison…