For this reason the death penalty cannot be viewed as excessive retribution. ... Kant describes the death penalty as basic algebra. ... John Locke also defends the death penalty as being of appropriate retribution by arguing that a person forfeits his rights when committing even minor crimes. ... Ernest Van Den Haag supports the notion that the death penalty is suitable retribution. ... Thus the death penalty cannot be viewed as excessive retribution to the guilty criminal."...

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Tate was just 12 when he battered a six-year-old girl to death while pretending to be a pro-wrestler. ... However, it does society, as a whole, little good to put young people in prison for their entire lives, or to cut those young lives short through implementation of the death penalty. ... According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the United States is one of only a handful of countries in the world that will sentence minors to the death penalty (Anonymous 2). ... In other words, every other industrialized, Western country prohibits the use of the death penalty in rega...

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The goal Socrates enemies was to make him grovel and ask for mercy so that he would look like a fool to all of Athens, but instead Socrates did the opposite professing that he was in the right, and preaching ignorance to the hundreds of jury members, and when they asked him what his penalty should be he laughed in their faces and gave them an outrageous proposal. Instead the jury sentenced him to death. Afterward the citizens were so ashamed that they were about to put one of societies greatest thinkers to death, they were obliged to look the other way when Socrates jail guards were bribed t...

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Among such trivial crimes as laughing there were serious crimes that could see a person to death or long drawn-out torture such as rape, murder, adultery and blasphemy. ... Adultery was a crime punishable by death by 1641 as Governor Winthrop had pushed. ... Several other accusations were made and several other people were hanged or pressed to death for rumored devil acts (Powers 492-494). ...

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