The_Death_Penalty

The Death Penalty The Death Penalty: Crime Deterrent and Cruel and Unusual Punishment TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotation Pg. 03 Intro Pg. 04 Part I of Thesis Pg. 05 Part II of Thesis Pg. 07 Conclusion Pg. 08 Work Cited Pg. 09 Outline Pg. 10 QUOTE “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” -Joseph Joubert “The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available.” -Justice Thurgood Marshall The Death Penalty: Crime Deterrent and Cruel and Unusual Punishment One of the most controversial debates that rages constantly in this country is the argument over whether capital punishment should be outlawed. There are two basics arguments in the debate on capital punishment, the first is whether or not capital punishment is constitutional, and the second, is capital punishment a deterrent to crime' Although recently we have heard many debates over the death penalty, constitutionally it is legal, but should it be' The death penalty has never been outlawed nationally, but for a period in the mid 1970's the Supreme Court changed the rules about capital punishment so that it was nearly death, punishment, penalty, capital, people, one, crime, unusual, right, deterrent, amendment, whether, should, less, eighth, deter, cruel, , wolf, states, state, society, put, press, poor, murder, mitchell, good, fifth, diego, crimes, believe, because, without, united