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Death Penalty

Definition

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DEATH PENALTY
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Death Penalty

Definition

Historical background
DEATH PENALTY
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a
government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed
by the state as a punishment for a crime.
The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner
is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of
carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.
Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital
crimes or capital offences, and they commonly include
offences such as murder, mass
murder, terrorism, treason, espionage, offenses against
the State, such as attempting to overthrow
government, piracy, drug trafficking, war crimes, crimes
against humanity and genocide, but may include a wide
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Death Penalty

?What is death penalty

Historical background
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

William Jane
conqueror will Champion
not allow become the
persons to be first women
hanged executed in
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11th 1632
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Captain United states
established A.D George Kendal abolitionist
death penalty
laws was first one movement
(Hammurabi executed in begins
Codes) America
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Pennsylvania American
becomes the abolition
first state to system loses
move support
executions
into
EARLY 1800s correctional 1847 .1966
facilities

1834 1920-1940
Many states Support of
reduced their Michigan was capital
number of the first state punishment
capital crimes to abolish reaches all-
death penalty time low
 Punishment should be carried out in order to
avenge the victim, and any other punishment
would fail to do justice

Recent investigations show that there is a

strong link between execution and low rates
of murder. This means that death penalty
decreases in crimes and save lives

Death row prisoners and death patients have

Supporters some similarities in common, death is coming.
This means that they are comforting them in
point of view their final

The punishment fits the crime in proportion

to the severity of their crimes

Some doctors believe that this is a duty to

ease suffering and this duty includes caring for
those who will die at the hand of the states
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Capital punishment doesn’t deter crimes

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These are just some of the reasons the
death penalty should be removed.
There are of course many more. With
the chance of being innocent, unjust,
corrupt, what of the death penalty can
be justified? We should be strongly
against the death penalty and what it
.stands for
As a conclusion, there are so many different
options of our system to fight crime, but the
death penalty is not one of them. The death
penalty is unjust and morally wrong. When
someone murders someone else, the correct
punishment is not to murder him or her, but to
try and help them. We don't steal from the
thieves, or rape the rappers. It would appear to
condone the crime by repeating it. It would be a
wanton cruelty, why do we murder the murders?
The death penalty take the focus away from the
victims and focuses the attention on the
.criminal
Recommendations
• Defendants should not be executed or sentenced to death if, at the time of offense, they had
significant limitations in both their intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior as
expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills, resulting from mental
retardation, dementia, or traumatic brain injury.
• Defendants should not be executed or sentenced to death if, at the time of the offense they
had a severe mental disorder.
• Physician involvement in lethal injection can make capital punishment less grotesque, more
palatable, and even routine.
• The idea that doctors may participate in executions does not mean that they must do so. But
it should be an option for those who believe that they have a duty to ease suffering and that
this duty includes caring for those who will die at the hands of the state..