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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1606 words (6.42 pages) in the essay titled Opposing the Death Penalty “Capital Punishment is the infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime” (Americana 596). Killing convicted felons has been one of the most widely practiced forms of criminal punishment in the United States. Currently, the states that do not practice the death penalty are Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin. But for the remaining states that still do practice the death penalty it has been a topic of debate for many years. There are two parties who argue over its many points, including whether or not it is a fitting and adequate punishment, whether or not it acts as a deterrent to crime or whether or not it is morally wrong. These two classes of people can be grouped together as the retentionists, or the proponents, and the abolitionists, or the opponents (596). For the retentionists, the main reasons they are in support of the death penalty are to take revenge, to deter others, and to punish. They are most concerned with the protection of society from dangerous criminals. In spite of all this however, the death penalty is not a good form of criminal punishment for many reasons: it is morally wrong, it does not act as a deterrent for crime, it is irreversible and can be done on people who are innocent, it is more expensive than imprisonment and those who are convicted commonly use the costly process of appealing the decision and there is no... |
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Keywords: opposing the death penalty, morally wrong, criminal punishment, capital punishment, abolitionists, fitting punishment, eye for an eye, convicted felons, alaska hawaii, dangerous criminals, maine massachusetts, barbarism