Death Penalty

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"The death penalty was prohibited in the United States between 1967 and 1976 by a series of court rulings. But these rulings have since been reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who plead to be executed rather than serve a life term in prison. Today, state-sanctioned executions are increasingly common. The purpose of this research is to examine the history and current status of the death penalty in the United States.
Ever since the Gilmore case, the number of people sentenced to death as well as those actually executed have risen exponentially every year. In the few years following Gilmore's execution, only a handful of people were executed by the states. By 1987, 61 people were executed (Stack, 1987:532). And in 1988, there were 106 executions carried out in the nation (Malcolm, 1989:A9)."

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