Part one of term paper
People that have committed extremely loathsome crimes such as murder have been punished by means of the death penalty. It is a practice of age-old standing, but in the United States it has become a very controversial issue. Changing views on this difficult topic led the Supreme Court to abolish capital punishment in 1972 and then bring it b ...

Part two of term paper
... of capital punishment have no right to play God. The 6th commandment in Exodus 20:13 states: "Thou shall not kill;" however if it was translated directly from the original Hebrew version, it is: "Thou shall not MURDER." Murder is defined in dictionaries as the UNLAWFUL killing of a person with malice and aforethought. This quote demonstrates the murderer deserves the death penalty and it was his own fault for putting himself on death row. While committing the crime, the criminal had no inte ...