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The cost of the death penalty
Title: The cost of the death penalty
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1978 | Pages: 8.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The cost of the death penalty
The Costs of the Death Penalty in the United States
Capital punishment has existed in the US since colonial times. Since then, more than 13,000 people have been legally executed. Today, there are only twelve states which do not have the death penalty: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as Washington D.C. The locations of these states are important because they illustrate the …showed first 75 words of 1978 total…
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Bibliography
Bibliography
1. American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network
www.aclu.org/library/case_against_death.html
2. Capital Punishment: Arguments for Life and Death
www.cpa.ca/cjbs/1996/ful_ogloff.html
3. Capital Punishment; the Death Penalty
www.religioustolerance.org/execute.html
4. Death Penalty Information Center
www.essential.org/dpic/dpic.r08.html
5. Death Penalty and Sentencing Information
www.prodeathpenalty.com/DP.html
6. Justice Center Web Site
www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/history.html
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