Death_Penalty

Death Penalty Capital punishment has been used in this country since before the Revolutionary War. It was suspended from 1972-1977 with continuation only after the process of appeals had been changed. The idea of capital punishment in America today forms a troubling question ; is the death penalty is punitive or a deterrent. Gary Gilmore faced a firing squad at the Utah State Prison on January 17, 1977. There had been 55 murders in that state during 1976. During 1977, in the wake of the Gilmore execution, there were 44 murders, a 20 percent decrease. A decade later, on August 28, 1987, Pierre Dale Shelby, who in 1974 forced five people to drink liquid drain cleaner, kicked a ball-point pen into the ear of one, then killed three, was executed. The count for January through August was 38 murders, a monthly average of 4.75. In the aftermath of the Shelby execution, there were 16 through the months of September to December, a monthly average of 4.0. Arthur Gary Bishop, who sodomized and killed a number of young boys, was executed on June 10, 1988. For all of 1988, there were 47 murders. During January-June, there were 26; for July-December, the tally life, capital, murders, without, punishment, been, shall, process, prison, nor, state, penalty, parole, named, moore, law, killed, during, due, deterrent, country, war, wake, utah, under, twice, time, through, three, shelby, sentenced, put, public, property, points