The death penalty is a historical debate of humankind. Death penalty also referred to as capital punishment, which means judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime. The death penalty can be defined as "The penalty of death for the commission of a crime" (www.answers.com). Death penalty is a controversial topic, and people have many different opinions about it. Most of the ancient societies accepted the idea of …showed first 75 words of 1993 total…

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