The issue of capital punishment has been a longstanding controversial issue in American society. Our society has always had dissenters who have tried to abolish the death penalty in our country. Despite several tries by the American government to regulate and, eventually, stop the death penalty, this form of punishment has been unsuccessful in deterring murders from committing violent crimes. In 1972 the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional. In the case of …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

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