With the birth of man comes the birth of crime and hence with the birth of crime is the origin of punishment. ... In France, the method of execution was intended to match the crime and the convict's social rank. ... More states began to reduce the number of capital crimes and made laws more flexible. By 1846 in Michigan, treason was the only capital crime. ... The chamber is of octagonal shape and the condemned person is strapped into a chair, and a stethoscope is strapped to his chest and connected to ear pieces in a witness room so that the doctor can note when the heart stop beatin...

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The police were frantic and, from letters left at the different crime scenes, the press eventually dubbed him, Son of Sam. ?... A law was passed that permitted the state to seize and hold for five years any money earned by an individual from the sale of his or her story of crime (Pember, p. 113). The money was then set aside to compensate the victim or victim's family of the crimes perpetrated by the felon. ... Of note, two separate, yet equally important, challenges to the law were produced in the late 1980's and early 1990's. ... Let us not mistake what should be fair and jus...

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The members of Westboro Baptist Church ("Westboro"), led by Fred Phelps, picketed near the funeral to demonstrate their view that "the United States is overly tolerant of sin and that God kills American soldiers as punishment." ...

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