Although comparisons of the two categories are not symmetrical, students comprise a narrower age range than prison inmates. ... Too heavily invested in his personality, however, this campaign has spent more time arguing over Jamal's innocence than it has devoted to exposing the obvious racism of the death penalty and the penal system in general. ...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt w...

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