Is it right or is it wrong to take the life of someone who has committed a capital crime? ... In the 1600s is when this ultimate punishment reached the United States when "the first colonists came to the United States, they brought the British penal system across the ocean with them. ... After his execution, his lawyers said "The media will focus on the 'nazi' propaganda of the prosecution...the truth is [Spisak] was seriously mentally ill and committed the crimes because of this mental illness, not because of hate,"" Spisak was someone who suffered from insanity, but it w...

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