Brooke Kennedy
American History
Carter Glass
5 April 2013
Bibliography:
"Maryland will be 18th state to ban death penalty." USA TODAY: Latest World and US News - USATODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/15/maryland-death-penalty/1989977/>.
"Jodi Arias Juror Dismissed for Talking About Trial - ABC News." ABCNews.com - Breaking News, Latest News & Top Video News - ABC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2013. <http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-juror-dismissed-talking-trial/story?
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Summary:
The death penalty is currently legal in 32 states and in the past 5 years 5 states have gotten rid of the death penalty. Maryland is now one of the states considering abolishing it. There is also a poll that shows that about two-thirds of Americans are in favor of keeping the death penalty. The last inmate that was killed was in 2005 and only five other men have been executed in the past 37 years.
Analysis:
Each case is different and has has different situations. For example, the man in Randolph in 2009 that kidnapped and killed his niece after he had been raping her for years. That man deserves to serve the death penalty, instead he will live his life in prison. There is something clearly wrong with that man. Killing him does not mean that we are correcting a wrong. It is not a matter of right and wrong. If a man or women has committed such a horrific crime, it is simple, they do not deserve to live. It can be however hard to distinguish what crimes are horrific enough to deserve the death penalty.
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