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Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Death Penalty

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Another aspect of this awfully barbaric law is that hey show no compassion even to minors. “The state of South Carolina has the distinction of having put to death the youngest person to be executed in the United States in the twentieth century” (Boner, 32). In 1944 George Stinney, an African American fourteen-year-old, was convicted of murdering two white girls. The only evidence was his supposed confession, in less than ten minutes the all white jury convicted him and in less than two months he was executed. The first states to abolish the death penalty were all in the north, Connecticut was the first in 1830, then Michigan in 1846, followed by Rhode Island and Wisconsin 150 years later. In the south the Death penalty was tied to slavery and to this day almost all the south states still have it. …show more content…

According to statistics whites tend to support the death penalty more than blacks, men more than women, married people more than singles, wealthy people more than poor, and suburbanites more than urbanites. Many people argue that their religion tells them that killing is wrong, and many others argue that the eighth amendment of Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted is against the capital

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