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Capital Punishment
Throughout history, statistics have proven that Capital Punishment or
otherwise known as the death penalty, has been an effective deterrent of major
crime. Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of death among criminals and
has been used to punish a wide variety of offenses for many years all over th ....
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.... is that it
must be first degree murder, which is the deliberate and premeditated taking of
life. The second is that one or more aggravating circumstances must be present.
Aggravating Circumstances refer to those aspects of a crime that increase its
severity. An example of an aggravating circumstance would be torture in
conjunction with a murder. ("Capital Punishment" 32).
Every society has faced the problem of what to do with its most
troublesome criminals. Many people in the past have argued whether or not
Capital Punishment is justified and necessary.
Mos ....
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