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The Death Penalty: Just Punishment or Murder
Jules Thompson
Ashford University
Crime and Society
SOC 305
Patrick Norris
November 29, 2009
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The Death Penalty: Just Punishment or Murder
One of the most debated topics in America today is how society should deal with the persons who commit the most violent, offensive and heinous crimes against society. Historically the punishment for these crimes was death. This punishment was normally accepted for these types of crimes not only in America but worldwide. Over the last two centuries challenges to the death penalty have been made which have argued the moral, ethical and religious reasons as to why the death penalty is both right and wrong. The ultimate question being asked in all of these challenges has been: can the death penalty ever be a punishment which is morally, ethically and religiously accepted by all of society? Is it justifiable to kill a human being in order to show society that the killing of a human is wrong? To some it seems justifiable to others it seems hypocritical.
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An ad from the Ecologist Green Party in Mexico pro...The first recorded death penalty laws date back to ancient Babylon with the publishing of the codes of King Hammurabi in the 18th Century B.C. In his published law, there were twenty five crimes for which a person could be put to death; ironically murder was not one of them. The first recorded death sentence was in 16th Century B.C. Egypt; when a member of Egyptian nobility was accused of practicing magic and was sentenced by the Pharaoh to take his own life. According to Draconian code, in ancient Greece, any crime committed was punishable by death. One of the most notable death sentences in ancient Greece was when the philosopher Socrates was sentenced to...