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The Death Penalty - Online Term Paper

The Death Penalty

December 12, 1984, the first jolt failed to kill Alpha Otis Stephens, he struggled for eight minutes before a second jolt finished the job. The first jolt took two minutes, and then there was a six-minute pause. During this six-minute pause body could cool before physicians could examine him and declare that another jolt was needed. Stephens took 23 breaths, during that six-minute interval. Such incidents prove that constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and should be replaced by life in prison. The following reasons prove that harms rather than helps any quest for a just, humane society.
The Bible requires for a wide variety of crimes, including sex before marriage, adultery, and ...

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individuals' chance for salvation. Human life has intrinsic value, even if a person has murdered another. Nobody should ever be killed, even by the state.

Moreover, human beings such as the poor, males, and racial minorities are over-represented among those executed. A study of over 2 dozen convicted criminals on death row found that all had been so seriously abused during childhood that they probably all suffered from brain damage. To further this subject, women convicted of murder are almost never executed. For instance, in March 1998 Judy Beenano aged 54 in Florida, was called the "Black Widow" for poisoning her husband, drowning her son and trying to blow up her fiancé. She was the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848. It seems that the death penalty is reserved for men. 1986 study in Georgia showed that persons who killed "whites were four times more likely to be sentenced to death than convicted killers of non-whites."

Even so, many convicted murderers are ...

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Added: 3/17/2007 07:50:53 AM
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Free Paper
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