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An 8 page paper arguing that capital punishment discriminates against the poor. Uses specific cases and pertinent statistics. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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of electrocution, the gas chamber, or a lethal injection of a drug. Hanging is still used in some places, as is execution by firing squad.
Some forms of execution were extremely brutal. In the Roman Empire, Persia, and in medieval Japan, crucifixion for a variety of offenders was common. This involved binding
or nailing the offender to a crossbeam fixed on a vertical beam set in the ground. Death eventually ensued from exhaustion, suffocation, bleeding, or heart failure.
In Europe during the Middle Ages, hanging was used for persons of low status and decapitation for members of the upper classes. Witches and heretics were burned
at the stake. One of the worst methods of execution, drawing and quartering, was used in England. Victims were first partly strangled. Then, while still alive, they
were disemboweled; their intestines torn out and burned and the body was subsequently hacked into four pieces. (Berger, 1982). The range of crimes for
which execution was the punishment has varied greatly over the centuries. In Greece during the 7th century BC, the lawgiver Draco issued a code that punished nearly all crimes
by death. The word draconian survives to describe unusually harsh legal penalties. In modern times the use of capital punishment in civilized societies has declined markedly, and the
death penalty is inflicted only for the most serious crimes such as murder or treason. In much of Western Europe, capital punishment has been abolished altogether, and it is
seldom used where it is legal. (Berger, 1982). In the United States the death penalty for murder was first abolished in Michigan in 1847.
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