The most important question concerning the death penalty is whether it should be

abolished or not. I think that the death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It

violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is

the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. Race, social and economic status,

location of crime, and pure chance may be deciding factors in death sentencing. In

addition, prosecutors seek the death penalty far more frequently when the victim of the

homicide is white than when the victim is black. The actual cost of an execution is

substantially higher than the cost of imprisoning a person for life.

Death was formerly the penalty for all felonies in English law. In practice the

death penalty was never applied as widely as the law provided, as a variety of procedures

were adopted to decrease the harshness of the law. Many offenders who committed

capital crimes were pardoned, usually on condition that they agreed to be transported to

what were then the American colonies; others were allowed w

In medieval times the only proof of ordination was literacy, and it became the custom by

communications made it easier to centralize the decision-making about executions with

capital trial costs $116,700 more than an ordinary murder trial(Haines 7).

as many law enforcement officers were killed in death penalty states, as were killed in

local to state governments was partially due to increased technology. Improved

produced any solid evidence that the death penalty prevents violent crimes. According to

Deterrence is an argument often spoken of to justify the death penalty. On the outside,

uncovered no deterrent value in the death penalty. Between 1976 and 1985, almost twice

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