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A 10 page paper which takes that pro argument for the death
penalty. The history of the death penalty is discussed as is the case of Timothy McVeigh.
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sides are perhaps equally split, with many arguing that the death penalty is wrong and we cannot punish murderers with murder. Others argue that some crimes are so heinous that
there is no other option but the death penalty in order for justice to be served and people protected. Understandably, some people in history have been executed and found later
to have been innocent, but that does not mean that the death penalty should be abolished. In many cases the death penalty is the best and only option for providing
justice and protection. In the following paper we provide an argument for the death penalty. The paper discusses the history of the death penalty in this country and many other
related issues. History "Nearly four centuries have passed since the first documented execution on American soil took place in 1608 (Schneider & Smykla, 1991). Early colonial laws concerning
capital punishment were borrowed from British law" (Costanzo; White 1). At the time the English law possessed more than 50 crimes which were deemed capital offenses. Some of these included
"vagrancy, heresy, witchcraft, rape, murder, and treason (Hook & Kahn, 1989). Eventually, the American colonies developed their own lists of capital crimes" (Costanzo; White 1). "In modern America the death
penalty is used rarely and for only the most severe crimes. But in 18th- and 19th-century England and America, the death penalty was used often and for less severe crimes,
such as stealing and forgery" (Anonymous Beheading, burning, and hanging 2D). The list of crimes varied with regions. "For example, Puritan-influenced Massachusetts Bay Colony listed statutory rape, rebellion,
adultery, buggery, idolatry, witchcraft, bestiality, man stealing, and blasphemy as capital crimes. In contrast, Quaker-influenced South Jersey declined to adopt capital punishment in its original charter (Bedau, 1982; Hook &
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