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Capital Punishment - School Essays

Capital Punishment

The death penalty is a necessary evil that has a positive effect on society today. It is an effective deterrent of crime as well as a safeguard for society. It also helps to keep order in our cities. Furthermore feel it is a just and effective punishment for those who have committed crimes heinous enough to deserve death.
The death penalty is not a new idea in our world. Its origins date back over 3,700 years to the Babylonian civilization, where it was prescribed for a variety of crimes. ( p.10). It was also greatly used in the Greek and Roman empires. It continued into England during the Middle Ages,and then to the American colonies where it exists still today. In the colonies, ...

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do not, and therefore it is not effective and somewhat contributes to the problem. I must point out though that states that have the death penalty are usually highly urbanized areas that most likely will have high crime rates because of the large population. Rather, in rural states there is no need for the death penalty because the population is most likely low and scattered throughout the region. States that practice do so because of high crime rates, not vice versa. Abolitionists also state that the death penalty is a racist punishment, and only given to African Americans. In the May 11, 1998 issue of JET magazine it stated that over 50% of all blacks favor the death penalty. (JET Magazine).
According to an U.S. Dept. Of Justice press release on December 13, 1998,of those executed,they were all males: 45 whites, 27 blacks, 1 Asian, and 1 American Indian. Five
Were Hispanics...At the end of last year, 34 states and the federal prison system held 3,335 men and women (44 ...

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Added: 1/22/2008 09:35:10 PM
Category: Legal Issues
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