Capital Punishment – An Overview
             "The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial
             proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is
             barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information
             presently available."- Justice Thurgood Marshall
             Imagine a man who commits murder once, is given a fifteen-year jail sentence
             and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be
             released. This could happen since almost one in ten death row inmates has been
             convicted of murder at least once. That means that some death row inmates have been
             given more than one chance to rehabilitate in prison and continue to commit violent
             crimes. Should the United States justice system continue to let violent criminals back on
             the streets where they are likely to commit murder again? Capital punishment is one of
             the oldest forms of punishment in the world. Most societies have considered it a fair
             punishment for severe crimes. It is even mentioned as an appropriate punishment in
             the Bible. American colonists used capital punishment before the United States was a
             country, and most states use it today. Currently, however, there is a great deal of
             controversy surrounding the death penalty. Capital cases are long and expensive, and
             there is no proof as to whether capital punishment deters crime. For these reasons total
             abolition may be the best way to resolve the capital punishment controversy. If the laws
             concerning capital punishment were modified, however, capital punishment could
             become much cheaper, and possibly a lot more effective. – Steve Brinker Capital
             Since the beginning of man, people have been put to death. Capital
             punishment has been used all over the world as a means of punishing people for their
             crimes. Here in America, people are usually given a ...