Part one of term paper
A major controversy facing the world today is capital punishment. Criminals no doubt deserve to be punished, and the severity of the punishment should be appropriate to their culpability and the harm they have caused the innocent. However, there are many reasonable, less controversial, and far more efficient methods of dealing with seriou ...

Part two of term paper
... penalty is currently authorized in one of five ways: Hanging (the traditional method of execution throughout the English- speaking world), electrocution (introduced by New York state in 1890), the gas chamber (adopted in Nevada in 1923), firing squad, and lethal injection (introduced in 1977 by Oklahoma), the majority of states provide for death by lethal injection. Supporters of the death penalty believe it is a better deterrent than imprisonment because taking an offender’s life is a more ...