Capital Punishment in South Carolina

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This paper discusses the history of the capital punishment statute in South Carolina from 1912. It discusses the debate over the laws and the current situation. The paper also compares the capital punishment laws between the different states and how they have been applied. In addition, the paper examines the arguments against the death penalty and suggests that the death penalty will slowly deteriorate into nothing.

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"Basically, there are some people who believe that the death penalty should continue especially if they were victims or relatives of the victims. If the death penalty happens in one or two states only and people see that the murder rate declines when trials are set in those places, the boundaries would definitely change. In other words, if a murder happened in Columbia, South Carolina and the trial was set in Texas since the death penalty exist and all evidence pointed that way and was convicted, sentence to die, and executed; other states may join in to decrease murder rates."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bedau, H. (1997). Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. London: Oxford University Press.
• Cassell, P. (2004). Debating the Death Penalty: Should America have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both sides. London: Oxford University Press.
• Governor Brad Henry Signs Bill Allowing Death Penalty for Repeat Child Molesters. 2006 June 9 Associated Press. Retrieved 10 April 2007 from http://www.kotv.com/
• Haines, H. (1996). Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994. London: Oxford University Press.
• Latzer, B. (2002). Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment, 2nd Edition. New York: Butterworth-Heinemann Publishing.

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