History of Capital Punishment in Canada "In Canada, the death penalty has been rejected as an acceptable element of criminal justice. ... When a criminal is detained in prison, society is safe and does not face a threat from the criminal, so to kill the criminal is not necessary. Killing the criminal is excessive and it does not add to the direct protection of society. ... It does something almost worse than lowering the state to the moral level of the criminal: it raises the criminal to moral equality with the social order" (www.cwrl.edu). Indeed, one of the ironies of capital punishmen...

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More than one shock was usually required to kill the criminal, so it drained a massive amount of electricity from the power company. ... The cost of the apparatus and maintenance of the procedures of the death penalty, including death row and the endless appeals far outweigh the expense of maintaining in prison the tiny fraction of criminals who would otherwise be slain (Anderson, 46). ... While this might sound expensive it is pennies when compared to the expense of killing a criminal. ... In the last hundred years there have been more than 75 documented cases of wrongful conviction of crimin...

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Records of Ancient Egypt indicate acts of criminal condemning by different methods of execution ("Classical Judaism" 142). Even though biblical references state executions of crucifixions and stoning of criminals, the Catholic Church, in addition to an array of various other faiths, still has plead politicians in America to end this form of punishment. ... Ziadeh, a scholar who has written on Islam and criminal law for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam. Death is also sanctioned in adultery, he said. ...

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Those who oppose capital punishment contend that supporters of the death penalty fail to consider the complexities of our criminal justice system. They insist most Americans believe the criminal justice system favors the rich over the poor. They argue that the death penalty underestimates the worth of life and that the discrepancy is equal to legislative hypocrisy and that if the sanction is not going to be applied, it should be abolished. ...

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The death penalty is a state-sanctioned murder that is used to punish a criminal for a variety of different terrible crimes that he or she might have committed in our society. ... In addition it is impossible to guarantee that the criminal justice system will not discriminate against or execute the innocent. ... "The use of the death penalty obviously guarantees that the criminal will never commit another crime, for the murderer is dead, but, there is no evidence that capital punishment deters another individual from committing murder" (Glover). ... Victims of the loss of a loved do not ...

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Every Western Industrial nation has stopped executing criminals, except the United States. Most Western nations have executed criminals in this century, and many were executed after World War II. ... It prevents criminals from returning to society, and is less expensive than capital punishment (Vila & Morris, 1997, p.255). ... Criminals shouldn't be the objects of anger; they should be objects of pity. ... State sanctioned executions expose more of the violence and injustice that are in everyone. ...

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