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The Death Penalty
There have been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a major crime. It isnt meant to inflict pain or torture, but rather another form of punish ....
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.... are executed. The death penalty was also confined to crimes of murder, including felony murder. A felony murder is any homicide committed in the course of committing another felony such as rape of robbery. After the 1972 court ruling that all but a few capital statutes were unconstitutional, thirty-seven states revised and reenacted their death penalty laws. The 1989 Supreme Court decided that the death penalty could be used on those who were mentally retarted or under ....
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