1. Death penalty8
The death penalty gives society the unmistakable message that human life no longer deserves respect when it is useful to take it and that homicide is legitimate when deemed justified by the concerns of society. ... But in 1938 in an effort to make the death penalty more acceptable to the public some states began passing laws against mandatory death sentencing instead enacting discretionary death penalty statutes. ...
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