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THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE WAY WE THINK NOW R. George Wright* I. INTRODUCTION The death penalty is a matter of continuing fascination. Crit-ics of the death penalty in contemporary American jurispru-dence have claimed the inevitability of caprice and mistake' and
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it?
The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see...
Michigan abolished it in 1845 and Wisconsin entered the Union in 1848 without a death penalty in its statutes. The movement against the death penalty grew stronger after World War II, especially in Europe, where many were weary of so much killing during the war.
In these nations, with their commitment to limiting state violence, promoting social welfare, and respecting human dignity, the death penalty exists, if it does, in tension with important political institutions and cultural commitments.
Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder, and that is the death penalty. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life.
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US Supreme Court ruling in Burger v United States, (1935) The criminal justice system in the USA is failing to fulfil its highest duty: to protect innocent people from wrongful convictions and death sentences.
