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Capital Punishment
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There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent years. is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime. It is not intended to inflict any physic ....
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....n, and Rhode Island abandoned the practice altogether .In 1794, Pennsylvania adopted a law to distinguish the degrees of murder and only used the death penalty for premeditated first-degree murder. Another reform took place in 1846 in Louisiana. This state abolished the mandatory death penalty and authorized the option of sentencing a capital offender to life imprisonment rather than to death. After the 1830s, public executions ceased to be demonstrated but did not completely stop until after 19.... |
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