Capital Punishment

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This paper presents the case of convicted rapist and murderer, Kenneth McDuff, who was sentenced to death and subsequently released. The paper outlines the criminal's rapid return to his old ways and discusses the necessity of the implementation of the death penalty. The paper expresses the writer's belief that most serious criminals cannot be reformed or sufficiently contained for, as McDuff's case illustrates, the majority of them are both genetically and psychologically conditioned towards crime and violence in a way that the prison system only makes worse.

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"In 1966 Kenneth McDuff was convicted of shooting two boys, then raping and strangling their 16-year-old female companion. He was convicted to death. Unfortunately, in 1972 the Supreme Court's ruling against the death penalty commuted his sentence. In 1989, because of prison overflow, he was released. After all, it had been twenty-two years... Within days he had raped and strangled one young woman, leaving her naked body dumped in a field. He was temporarily reincarcerated over a traffic violation, and rereleased again in 1990. By 1991, he had begun killing again. No one knows how many victims he took, though at least nine are on record. He was eventually re-sentenced to death in one on the cases, the abduction, rape, and murder of a pregnant woman. He was finally put to sleep in 1998 through lethal injection."

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