Capital Punishment

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This paper examines whether any society that professes to uphold values, such as the sanctity of life, equality, peace and nonviolence, can simultaneously endorse capital punishment as a method of justice. The paper demonstrates that capital punishment is a barbaric practice that constitutes a form of social injustice, especially since it does not even fulfill its purported purpose of defending the interests of society.

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"It can also be inferred that the perspective outlined above has led to the decline in capital punishment globally. Once a virtually universal practice, executions have become rare among industrialized democracies. While a few countries do retain capital statues for dealing with extraordinary crimes such as treason, only Japan, parts of the former Soviet Union, and the United States still carry out death sentences for "ordinary" crimes of violence. Interestingly, even among those countries that still impose the death penalty, it appears that the United States stands in stark contrast to the international trend with capital punishment flourishing, accompanied by a corresponding wave of public support (Haines, 1996, p. 3)."

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