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The Death Penalty
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....g, the government -- colonial, federal and state --
has punished murder and, until recent years, rape with the ultimate sanction:
death. More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial times,
most of them in the early 20th Century. By the 1930s, as many as 150 people
were executed each year. Howeve.... Part 2 of Paper
....ty-seven states now have laws authorizing the death penalty, as does the
military. A dozen states in the Middle West and Northeast have abolished
capital punishment, two in the last century (Michigan in 1847, Minnesota in
1853). Alaska and Hawaii have never had the death penalty. Most executions have
taken place in the states of the Deep South.
More than 2,000 people are on "death row" today. Virtually all are poor, a
significant number are mentally retarded or otherwise mentally disabled, m.... |
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