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A 24 page research paper that consists of 3 separate papers. The first paper is 4 pages in length and introduces the topic, as well as the questions that examination of the death penalty raises. The second paper is 5 pages in length and further discusses the topic, clarifying the issues to be addressed and the need for research. The final paper is 15 pages in length and proposes a plan for an extensive research project on this topic. Throughout the writer emphasizes the dichotomies associated with this topic, which includes the fact that the US is alone among the industrialized nations in supporting capital punishment. Each paper has its own bibliography and the cumulative bibliography (last paper) lists 11 sources.
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by the US in regards to capital punishment. As the United States has traditionally been a world leader in regards to human rights, its current position on the death penalty
seems to be incongruous, particularly when contrasted with world opinion. This dichotomy raises numerous questions that concern the nature of this debate, as viewed within an epistemological, as well as
a political, context. Roughly a half-century ago, human rights became embodied in international law for the first time as the United Nations (UN) Charter lists as one of that
organizations principal goals its desire to "advance and strength the respect of human rights and basic freedoms of all people, regardless of race, sex, language and religion" (Heuer and Shirmer
1998, 5). The UNs Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 spells out its stance on this issue and the vast majority of countries throughout the world have in interpreted
their support of declaration by outlawing capital punishment. Nevertheless, until relatively recently, while international law limitations on the employment6 of the death penalty are not new, they have in
the past been narrowly drawn (Grant 1998). For example, when the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) was first drafted in the 1950, the death penalty was not
generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing international movement to abolish capital punishment, which grounds its ideology within
the human rights principles as expressed by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which states the right of individiuals to life and to be protected from "cruel, inhuman, and degrading
punishment" (Grant 1998, 6). Within this context, the stance of the US is virtually unique. While the topic of "human rights" has been the battle cry of US propaganda for
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