Capital Punishment
is the lawful infliction of the death
penalty and since ancient times it has been used to punish a wide variety
of offenses. The Bible prescribes death for murder and many other crimes
such as kidnapping and witchcraft. In the 1500's in England only the major
felonies carried the death penalty. Some of these felonies are treason,
murder, larceny, burglary, rape, and arson. In the 1800's however ,
parilament had enacted many new capital offenses, and hundreds of persons
were being sentenced to death each year. In the United States prior to the
civil war the death penalty ....
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