Death Penalty Tim Kravchunovsky En109/Professor Mathews Progress/Completion Report 8 May, 2001 The Debate On Capital Punishment What act by the United States government kills almost a hundred people every year? The United States Department of Justice legally executes criminals who commit certain crimes. The crimes for which a person can be executed for are named Capital offenses, thus the name Capital Punishment. The debate over capital punishment originates in the seventeenth century and still continues …showed first 75 words of 1910 total…

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