• Capital Punishment: Just or Unjust?

     

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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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Extract

Capital Punishment is defined in the Webster's Dictionary as the death penalty. "Capital" refers to a person's head because people were executed by severing their head from their body in the past. Capital punishment is a controversial issue that will be talked about forever because it is a past and current issue. Currently, lethal injection is the form most prisoners choose when it comes to dying procedures because it is by far the most painless method. The United States is one of the very few economically developed nations in the world which still practices the execution of criminals.…

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