Death Penalty
The death penalty is the most serious sanction one can receive in today's criminal justice system. This sanction can be brought about mostly for the conviction of murder in the first degree. For the charge of murder in the first degree, most states require it to be murder plus other aggravating circumstances. However this varies from state to state and in the federal government.The United States of America has had the death penalty as a punishment since the beginning of its existence as a colony back in 1608 (Costanzo 1994). When European settlers first settled the new colonies they brought with them the idea of English law and their punishments. Over the years crimes punishments have been vagrant, heresy, witchcraft, rape, murder, slave owner offenses and other "acts that threatened the prevailing social order (Costanzo 1994)." As times moved on, citizens moved away from the less serious crimes having a punishment of death to only the more serious crime carrying the punishment. And today, 37 states and the federal government have the death penalty as sanctions for the convicted criminals of the most serious offenses. The death penalty has been in effect in the United States for most of t
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