The innocent lives that have been taken with the approval form government should be enough to end capital punishment once and for all. ... The death penalty is not a proven deterrent to future murder. ... Once in prison, the prisoners serving life sentences are less likely to commit violence than other prisoners and often get into a routine. ... Martin Luther King Jr. said "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. ...

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Before you can learn about how it applies today and its future, you must know its past. IN 18th century B.C. according to pbs.org, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon established the death penalty for twenty five different crimes, with murder not included. ... Jesus Christ was one of these that fell under Mosaic Law proclaiming the he was King of the Jews. ... In his book he made a case that the death penalty shouldn't be completely abolished, but as for certain crimes it proved useless in preventing them in the future. ...

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The past century has been one of sensational crimes that have amazed many Americans. Form the Lindbergh baby to the exploits of Al Capone, to serial murderers like Ted Bundy. Crime has become a cultural phenomenon that has captured the interests of academics and the causal reader alike. To look back...

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