Capital Punishment

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The paper begins by stating that the death penalty is discriminatory towards ethnic minorities, the poor, the uneducated, and the mentally challenged. It argues against the deterrent effect of capital punishment and uses statistical studies to support his claims. It refutes the improvement of the crime situation with the death penalty and discusses, in depth, an alternative to this form of punishment (life imprisonment without parole). It lists advantages of the "life without parole solution" and concludes b summing up its main arguments.

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"Between 1976 and 1981, more than 80 death row inmates nationwide have been freed, after charges against them were dropped due to wrongful convictions and overwhelming evidence of innocence (Williams: 13). Proponents of the death penalty present this as proof that the legal system works. However, as more lawyers and crusaders take up the cases of people on death row, a disturbing pattern emerges. Most of the people on death row are poor, uneducated. Many suffer from mental illness. Majority of those on death row are African American or Hispanic."

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