Death Penalty

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"Arguments about the right of society to demand the ultimate punishment through the death penalty have been made for decades in the United States. In the 1970s, the issue might have seemed more academic than real because the Supreme Court had thrown out the nation's death penalty laws as being improperly drawn. Since the court did not say the death penalty could never be applied but only that it was not being applied correctly in law at the time, the death penalty has been reinstituted with language that conforms to the parameters set by the Supreme Court. In spite of a number of challenges, capital punishment has been affirmed by the Court and continues to be enforced. There is considerable public support for the death penalty, much of it related to a general trend toward demanding harsher penalties for criminals because of a fear of street crime and violence."

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