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Student’s Name Professor Course Date Discuss the Argument for and against Death Penalty Introduction The death penalty is also referred to as capital punishment and it is a government endorsed practice where an individual is put to death by the government for a crime he has committed. The criminal offenses that result in the death penalty are known as capital offenses. The death penalty is considered to be the gravest form of punishment on earth. There are countries across the globe that still carries out capital punishment for example 58 states while the majority of the countries have abolished the system. Around 1436 individuals have been executed in the U.S from 1977 to date ("Death Penalty Information Centre Facts About Death Penalty" n.p). The death penalty is through lethal injections. Most of the cases that led to the execution are due to treason espionage and other serious capital offenses. morally flawed and can be viewed as a form of vengeance. Additionally religious leaders are not in support of death sentence because mostly it leads to the execution of innocent people in the society yet it cannot be irreversible. Therefore states should adopt other methods of punishment other than the death penalty. Works Cited Bedau Hugo Adam and Paul G Cassell. Debating The Death Penalty. 1st ed. New York Oxford University Press 2004 Breyer Stephen G and John D Bessler. Against The Death Penalty. 1st ed. Brookling Brookings Institution Press 2016 . Chenwi Lilian. Towards The Abolition Of The Death Penalty In Africa. 1st ed. Pretoria Pretoria University Law Press 2007 "Death Penalty Information Centre Facts Abouts Death Penalty". Www.Deathpenalty.Org 2016 http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf. Radelet Michael and Ronald Akers. "Journal Of Criminal Law And Criminology". Www.Northwestern.Edu 2016 https://www.law.columbia.edu/law_school/communications/reports/summer06/capitalpunish. Walker Ida. The Death Penalty. 1st ed. Edina Minn. ABDO Pub. Co. 2008 [...]
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The research paper will be a minimum of 3 (typed and double-spaced) pages, plus a bibliography page, using any acceptable academic format. Students must utilize five outside sources for the paper; two may be informal sources such as newspapers/magazines. Three sources must be recognized as academic sources such as peer-reviewed journals, academic books, etc. Students must cite their sources appropriately
Subject Area: Politics
Document Type: Research Paper
