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    restructure the death penalty as it stands now rather than cut education programs and jobs. California is a state which supports capital punishment; it is also a state that very rarely executes it death row inmates. In the last several years, California’s public educations system has taken on enormous budget cuts due to the state revenue crisis. As political leaders gather in the senate and review the gravity of the state’s situation, political leaders should examine how restructuring the death penalty and

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    Those who oppose the death penalty claim that it is not an effective deterrent, while supporters claim that it is the most effective deterrent in existence. Further, does man have the right to determine another man’s fate as a means of punishment? How do we know the person to be executed is absolutely guilty without question? There have been numerous exonerations of wrongly accused individuals on death row as well as innocent individuals executed. On the other hand, one must consider the victim

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    Few issues in the United States today are as emotionally charged and controversial as the death penalty. Formally know as capital punishment, the death penalty has been hotly debated not only as a legal issue, but as a religious, ethical, and political one, historically as well as in the present day. Although many states currently administer the death penalty, Texas has been put in the spot light this past year because of the recent presidential race. The moral question

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    to close the gap. China, for example, has found a solution. They use death-row inmate’s organs for transplant operations. A report from an international team, which included human rights lawyers and journalist, estimated that 10,000 to 60,000 organs are transplanted each year in China and most organs have been harvested from prisoners whose views conflicted with the ruling Chinese Communist Party (Griffiths, 2016). The death sentences in China are carried out by a traditional style execution method-

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    The death penalty can be summed up entirely in one word, bias. For a country that prides itself on “justice for all” and “all men are created equal”, the death penalty falls short of such boast. The subsequent arguments are not formulated to defend the individual and their horrific crime, rather they are presented in order to support why the death penalty is unfair and should be eliminated. If such brutish punishment if seen as just for the crime committed, should it not apply equally to all, regardless

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    to death row to be punished to their deaths by execution. Also known as the death penalty, these convicted prisoners are then put to death by such methods as a firing squad, gas chamber, electrocution, hanging, or lethal injection. All of which are lethal social injustices. My first reason for wanting to abolish capital punishment is because the legal process is not without error, sometimes causing innocent individuals to be wrongly convicted of crimes they did not commit. Once a death row

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    Offenders facing the death penalty The death penalty is something many people face each day . There is approximately 1,188 people that were executed in the U.S from 1977 through 2009 . There are many ways on how to execute someone, but primarily we use the lethal injection. The way people are trailed and put on the death penalty, is because of the involvement with first degree of murder, or other crimes. Proponents say that the death penalty is an important tool for preserving law and order. They

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    Currently in 34 states they use the death penalty and is used by the federal government for punishing federal crimes. And in most cases the death penalty is used when the criminal has been convicted of murder. However, people have been sentenced to death for the rape of a minor, and many more have been convicted being innocent. This begs the question does the government have the right to take away someone’s life? And if so is it ethical and moral? Overall the goal of the Criminal Justice system

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    controversial points of view on the death penalty in America’s society. Is the death penalty socially correct? Is it just? The death penalty is an execution sentence that a person convicted of a capital crime must face. A person can only be sentenced to death in 33 states (deathpenatly.org). There have been as of April 1, 2012, 3,170 death row inmates in the Unites States history, with an exception of the two inmates in New Mexico and eleven in Connecticut that remain on the death row due to the law not being

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    The death penalty and capital punishment were brought to America from Britain when America was colonized. This paper will argue why the death penalty is an outdated punishment and that it needs to be banned in America. When analyzing certain key points as crime rates, costs to maintain death row inmates, wrongful convictions, and ethics it becomes evident that the death penalty should be ruled illegal in the United States. Firstly regarding the history of how capital punishment came to America from

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