... been a prominent subject in society ever since the first civilizations and it continues to be used today as a form of punishment. It has been used in various crimes ranging from rape to the more recent crimes of terrorism and mass murders. However, the fact that this brutal form of punishment has been the policy of many nations in the past does ... his stand on the death penalty by stating that, "when they have the choice between life and death, 99 percent of all prisoners under sentence of death prefers life in prison." This statistic proves nothing but the fact that man has an innate ...

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