1. Death Penelty
The Death Penalty Capital punishment has been a prominent subject in society ever since the first civilizations and it continues to be used today as a form of punishment. ... A number of states sought to resolve the discriminatory and arbitrary nature of the death penalty by simply sentencing everyone to death that was convicted of first-degree murder, but the Supreme Court rejected this proposal saying that "mandatory death sentence laws did not really resolve the problem but instead 'simply papered [it] over' since juries responded by refusing to convict certain arbitrarily chosen...
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