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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment on Trial: Which Side Is Correct?

( Originally submitted as a term paper for an English course (Instructor: S. Winifred Morgan) at Edgewood College, Madison, WI, on 12 May 1996. )

In most of the industrialized world, capital punishment is not used to punish criminals. Even South Africa, once notorious for its many executions, is giving up capital punishment. However, it is still used in the United States. The capital punishment debate in the United States has raged for almost four hundred years. Supporters of capital punishment often cite its roles as deterrent and retribution as reasons for their support of the death penalty. Opponents of capital punishment cite its arbitrariness and finality as reasons for their opposition against the death penalty. Because capital punishment can lead to an unequal application of justice, sometimes to the point of executing innocent persons, no amount of argument from its supporters should prevent it from being abolished.

The Arguments of Those Who Favor Capital Punishment

Supporters of capital punishment begin by arguing that capital punishment deters murder. This view has been held for thousands of years. In his book The Penalty of Death, Thors

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