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Background/Intro

Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and 35 executed.The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United Sates today. Once a jury has convicted a criminal offense they go to the second part of the trial, the punishment phase. If the jury recommends the death penalty and the judge agrees then the criminal will face some form of execution, lethal injection is the most common form used today. There was a period from 1972 to 1976 that capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Their reason for this decision was that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. The decision was reversed when new methods of execution were introduced.

Capital punishment is a difficult issue and there are as many different opinions as there are people. In our project, both sides have been presented and argued with focus on several topics as listed below. This page was constructed to show the different opinions held by the members of our group. There is plenty of useful information within our work. We hope you find it helpful and informative.

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Deterrence

Hard to kill a wrongly convicted criminal

Incapacitation

Lex Talionis (a life for a life)

More humane than life imprisonment

More economical than life sentence

Maximum public safety

Should be enforced in a more timely fashion

Chance for convicted to "pay-back" society

Cruel and unusual punishment (violation of the 8th amendment)

Doesn't deter crime

Less expensive than execution

Moral argument

Violates human dignity/rights

Possibility of innocent death

里面有每个理由的解释了。

capital punishment中英文

Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by judicial process for retribution and incapacitation. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). Hence, a capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head.

Capital punishment has been practiced in virtually every society, excluding those with state religious proscriptions against it. It is a matter of active controversy in various states, and positions can vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. A major exception is in Europe, where Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the practice.[1]

Today, most countries are considered by Amnesty International as abolitionists,[2] which allowed a vote on a resolution to the UN to promote the abolition of the death penalty.[3] But more than 60% of the worldwide population live in countries where executions take place in so far as the four most populous countries in the world (such as People's Republic of China, India, United States and Indonesia) apply the death penalty and are unlikely to abolish it soon.

**，又称生命刑，也称为极刑，世界上最古老的刑罚之一，指行刑者基于法律所赋予的权力，结束一个犯人的生命。而遭受这种剥夺生命的刑罚方法的有关犯人通常都在当地犯了严重罪行。尽管这“严重罪行”的定义时常有争议，但在现时保有**的国家中，一般来说，“蓄意杀人”必然是犯人被判**的其中一个重要理由。

**造成的最大问题在于完全无法补救司法造成的错误（司法出错的机率不低）、另外**的执行也会杀死重要人证；例如在美国有**犯因DNA测试而在十数年后**的例子[1]、澳大利亚也有在处死后18年发现是冤死的例子[2]、台湾的苏建和案因为主犯被枪决而无法破案或**、中国大陆的滕兴善**冤案[3]。

capital punishment是什么意思

capital punishment

英[ˈkæpitl ˈpʌnɪʃmənt]

美[ˈkæpɪtl ˈpʌnɪʃmənt]

[释义] **;

[例句]In this case, people that are never going to vote for capital punishment.

在这件案里,就是一定不会同意用极刑的人.