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Death Penalty - College Paper

Death Penalty

"Had the death penalty been a real possibility in the minds of...murderers, they might well have stayed their hand. They might have shown moral awareness before their victims died...Consider the tragic death of Rosa Velez, who happened to be home when a man named Luis Vera burglarized her apartment in Brooklyn. ‘Yeah, I shot her,’ Vera admitted. ‘...and I knew I wouldn't go to the chair.’(qtd. Lowe)Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the infliction of death upon a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally ...

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vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. In the European Union member states, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment.[2]

Today, most countries are considered by Amnesty International as abolitionist.[3] Amnesty International allowed a vote on a nonbinding resolution to the UN to promote the abolition of the death penalty.[4] However, over 60% of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, inasmuch as the four most populous countries in the world (the People's Republic of China, India, United States and Indonesia) apply the death penalty. All of them voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly in ...

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Added: 4/3/2011 01:44:29 PM
Submitted By: tyshel78
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 321
Pages: 2

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