The Death Penalty Is Needed
More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial
times, most of them in the early 20th Century. By the 1930s, as many as 150
people were executed each year. However, public outrage and legal
challenges caused the practice to come to a halt. By 1967, capital
punishment had virtually halted in the United States, pending the outcome
of several court challenges. Since our nation's founding, the government,
colonial, federal and state, has punished murder and, until recent years,
rape with the ultimate sanction: death. I think that the nation should
still act ....
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