The most severe of all sentences is in fact the death penalty. Also known as capital punishment, it's the most severe form of corporal punishment as it requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender. It has been banned in many countries, in the United States, an earlier move to eliminate capital punishment has now been reversed and more and more states are resorting to capital punishment for serious offenses such as murder. Like they …showed first 75 words of 1142 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1142 total…the government to spend elsewhere. Men and women could feel safer jogging or doing errands at night. Single women could feel safer in their homes. Children could feel safe playing in their yards. No executed murderer has ever killed again. Bibliography 1- Death Penalty Information Center 2- Kessler, Gary.ed. Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader, "The Death Penalty", Second Edition, Belmont: Wadsworth, 1995. 3- Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 16, "Crime and Punishment", pages 812-813, 15th Edition, 1989.