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    There are 32 states that are banned capital punishment in the United States. Capital punishment is likely for people who kill someone or many people or some countries use capital punishment for some drugs like stimulants and marijuana. The condemned are absolutely killed by strangulations or electric chairs, and poisonings. However, in the past, there were some ways like gas, shootings, crucifixions, and decapitations. In the early 21 century, capital punishment are banned in Europa, South…

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    The issue of capital punishment has in the last decades attracted a heated controversy, due to its extensive use and the severity with which it has been inflicted, especially on murderers. Death penalty has become the ultimate punishment for criminals, due to the reason that no punishment for such people is harsher than death itself. Currently, more than fifty countries across the globe practice the death penalty, with the United States included (Jane & Sidney, 2006). Capital punishment has…

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    Capital punishment, or what most call the death penalty is the ability of the state to take someone’s life as punishment for breaking the law. Several methods such as, hanging, electrocution, and lethal gas have been used over the years. Capital punishment has been around for over decades, and has also been abolished in many countries. What makes capital punishment so controversial? Some people believe the death penalty is cruel and inhumane, while the other side believes that since the…

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    victim(s) and in this way should be considered responsible. The American legitimate framework, reflecting popular sentiment, holds that capital punishment in essence is not a human rights infringement. The U.S. Preeminent Court has held that capital punishment is not savage and uncommon discipline (Gregg v. Georgia, 1976), even while narrowing the relevance of capital punishment in specific circumstances (Atkins v. Virginia, 2002; Roper v. Simmons, 2005). We call attention to out essentially to…

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    childhood we have been taught that murder is wrong. So ask yourself, what is capital punishment? Why do we kill people to show killing people is wrong? Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal sentence to die for criminal behaviour. We criticise murderers for breaking the law and tearing lives away from others, but we would be degraded to the very same level if we did the same and resorted to capital punishment. It carries a dangerous risk of punishing the innocent, is an…

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    America safe again not and a better place to live in. For example, in the article “An Argument in Favor of Capital Punishment”, the author states, “Ethical questions are the forefront of the debate about capital punishment as both a way of deterring crime and making criminals pay for their violent acts against individuals and society”. Isn’t that even more of a reason to keep capital punishment? Then other times, some of the murders are law enforcement so if a civilian is murdered so should law…

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    Capital Punishment Capital punishment is the legal authority for executing someone for a crime that they have done. It has been around since the Eighteenth Century B.C. Capital punishment has been the greatest controversial topic in America. People feel that capital punishment is the way to go but people also argue that capital punishment is the best way to punish people for their heinous crimes. Capital punishment came about for the reason to punish people for the crimes that they have…

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    Some of the Christains believe that the capital punishment is not an acceptable and appropriate method to punish someone. This is because Christianity is based on forgiveness and compassion. Christianity always teach us to forgive other people and also compass others. This teaching supports the sentence of life imprisonment. Giving the murderer an imprisonment instead of death penalty is another way to forgive some one because it will give him or her a new chance to live their life in a better…

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    Capital Punishment. In a world that is rapidly heading towards the future, this ancient, barbaric form of slaughter remains. It must be abolished in order to prevent the unwarranted murder of more innocents, at the hands of the governments whom still partake in this criminal act. When broken down into its simplest form, capital punishment is a person taking the life of another, better known as murder. Having been told the irrefutable truth since childhood that murder is wrong, wouldn’t one…

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    physician during lethal injection? Physician participation serves as an illusion that capital punishment can be conducted humanely. Physicians have no social duty to participate in executions. Yes, those who choose to participate do so out of beneficence, but “if physicians…

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