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Essay Galaxy - Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment
Capital punishment is the lawful infliction of death as a punishment
and since ancient times it has been used for a wide variety of offences.
The Bible prescribes death(see exodus 21:12 and deuteronomy 22:13) for
murder and many other crimes, including kidnapping and witchcraft. By 1500
in England, only major felonies carried the death penalty - treason,
murder, larceny, burglary, rape, and arson. By 1700, however, Parliament
had enacted many new capital offences, and hundreds of persons were being
put to death each year.
Reform of the death penalty began in Europe by the 1750s.It was
mentioned in the code of Hammurabi, and was championed by such academics
such as the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria, the French philosopher
Voltaire, and the English law reformers Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Romi....
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