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A 6 page research paper that first of all offers the pros and cons of this issue before arguing against those who support capital punishment and for its abolishment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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executed in the Jamestown colony of Virginia and in 1632, Jane Champion became the first woman put executed in the new colony (Manning and Rhoden-Trader, 2000). Five methods of
execution are available to the states according to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. These are: electrocution, firing squad, hanging, lethal gas and lethal injection
(Manning and Rhoden-Trader, 2000). The US is the only Western democratic nation that has not abolished capital punishment. Furthermore, only the US uses the electric chair (Manning and Rhoden-Trader, 2000).
According to Amnesty International, the US is currently the only nation in the world (since 1977) that is known to have executed inmates who committed crimes while younger than 18
years of age (Manning and Rhoden-Trader, 2000). The emergence of DNA testing and the consistent reliability of this form of testing has added fuel to the ongoing debate
in the US concerning capital punishment. In 2000, the FBI tested 100 inmates and the results of the DNA tests exonerated 33 of them, who had been identified by
witnesses and serology as criminals (Manning and Rhoden-Trader, 2000). Opponents to the death penalty point to this and regard it as evidence that it is far too easy to an
innocent person to be found guilty. On the other hand proponents of the death penalty look on DNA technology as a powerful safeguard against convicting innocent people in the future.
As this one issue indicates, there are two distinct sides to this issue. The following discussion will examine both arguments and show that those that oppose capital punishment present the
stronger argument. Manning and Rhoden-Trader (2000) sum up the arguments for both sides quite concisely. Death penalty partisans argue in favor of capital punishment because it: 1. allows society to
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