Submitted by DaytonFlyer08 on December 2, 2007

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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment
Capital punishment has existed throughout most of our nation’s history. More than five hundred and twenty-five men and women have been put to death here in Ohio. Thirty-five hundred people are now on death row. During 1996, at least four thousand two hundred and seventy-two prisoners are known to have been executed in thirty-nine states. By the mid-1960’s, public opposition to the death penalty had reached a high. It is still a controversy now with the question of morality as its fuel. (Capital) Although capital punishment is legal in many places of the world, it is still wrong and immoral.
There are those, however, who have the opposing view of...

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