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death penalty: see capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state.
HistoryCapital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| And now, Fellow Citizens and Creatures of the Jury, I assert that so awful a crime deserves death, and in the case of the ferocious criminal before you--who is now washing her face--the death penalty should be inflicted nine times. The unfortunate Gluck received life imprisonment in San Quentin, while the newspapers and the public held that it was a miscarriage of justice--that the death penalty should have been visited upon him. In the first there is a vivid picture of the terrible evils which England was suffering through war, lawlessness, the wholesale and foolish application of the death penalty, the misery of the peasants, the absorption of the land by the rich, and the other distressing corruptions in Church and State. |
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