Capital Punishment

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Term Paper Title	Capital Punishment
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Capital Punishment

[Category]:

Social Issues

[Paper Title]:

Dead Man Walking

[Text]:

Susan Carlisle

12/18/00

Hour G

Dead Man Walking

Throughout the years I have had great interest on the topic of capital
punishment. The question is whether or not there is justice in capital
punishment. I have spent the past few years of my life researching both sides of
this issue to determine whether justice presides. In the past years many lives
have been taken by the government, but it’s not just lives they take but the
rights of people. But why should I blame myself for the government’s wrong
doings. Because I’m not out there trying the persuade my peers that this typed
of control by the government is wrong and I must use my communication skills to
prove this.

When we think about capital punishment, we think of the criminal, but do we
take the time to think about the family of that criminal. Because one person
caused grief for a family we must turn around and cause grief for another. And
what about the money we spend to take these lives away. It cost lest to keep a
person in jail for life then to destroy the,. It also rids the suffering of a
family watching one of their members die. It is the power of the government
taking these lives and not the power of God. The only ones who will benefit are
those who feast on watching others die. It is not just the criminal who is the
victim, but all those who give in to the power of the government and agree with
capital punishment. One would say that this decision is for the common good,
then why can’t we all make this decision instead of

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a select few.

The pace of executions in this country has fluctuated in recent decades,

mostly in response to shifting rulings by the Supreme Court. During the
1950's, executions averaged about 50 a year, but they slowed in the late 1950's
and came to a stop so that no executions occurred between 1967 and 1977.
Executions resumed sporadically and since 1984 have averaged roughly 20 a year.
Thirty-six states now authorize the death penalty, typically for murder. The
framers of the Constitution clearly did not intend to outlaw the death penalty
on either the state or federal level. The Bill of Rights, which originally
applied only to the federal government until its provisions were erroneously
applied to the states in this century, explicitly validated that penalty in its
Fifth Amendment provisions that "no person shall be held to answer for a
capital or other infamous crime" exce...

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