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Capital Punishment - Essay and Term Paper
Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of thedeath penalty. In the United States capitalpunishment is legal in thirty-nine of the fiftystates. Beginning in 1973, prison populations beganan inevitable growth. There were 204,211 inmates in1973, and by 1977 the number of prisoners had grown to285,456, which later grew to 315,974 in 1980. By1976, it was clear that the death penalty had to bereinstated. America’s twenty-one year experiment withcapital punishment has resulted in a total of 392executions, seventy eight of which took place in 1996alone. Of these only thirty-four were federal cases,out of which thirty two were male and only two werefemale. Every year about 15,000 killers are charged and onlyabout 300 wind up on death row. The death rowpopulation is constantly increasing. It is now morethan 3,000. Because of constant appeals, it takes a person on death row typically between five to eightyears to finall......
Total Word Count: 2532
Page Count: 10.1 (250 words a page / double spaced)
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