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... Capital punishment has many fatal flaws. ... Throughout its history capital punishment has been opposed on many premises. Around the world many individuals often cite deterrence of crime as a viable defense of capital punishment. ... The 1990 GAO report, summarizing numerous capital punishment studies, confirmed "A consistent pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty. ... In Punishment and the Death Penalty the Texas criminal justice system estimated the cost of appeal capital murder at 2. ... (Mulvany page 2) Considerable evidence indicates that race has a big influence in capital punishment. ... An overwhelming number of factors including, overzealous prosecutors, inadequate state appointed defense lawyers, the high cost, ineffectiveness of executions, and the sheer brutality of executions all warrant a permanent cease of capital punishment.
Approximate Word count = 1491
Approximate Pages = 6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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