For many years, capital punishment has been the focus of heated and often bitter debate within the legal community. Inevitably, the Supreme Court of the United States has been at the core of the controversy. In the early 1960s, NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys arguing before the Supreme Court secured stays on the use of the death penalty in all states, which the court overturned in favor of execution in 1971. The next year, however, in …showed first 75 words of 804 total…

…showed last 75 words of 804 total…and basically no privileges proves to us that quality of life is non existent. This, to most, is a bigger punishment than losing their life. Death row inmates are volunteering to be executed, out of the sheer terror and the madness of knowing what the rest of their life holds for them. This is the punishment that most victim's families are realizing is pure hell. And that I believe is the ultimate form of punishment.