Capital Punishment

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Social Issues

 

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Lois C

 

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June 5, 2014

 

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University

 

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They believed that executions of prisoners should take place behind prison walls and away from the scrutiny of the masses (Mcfeely, 2001). A famous Historian named Louis Masur had argued in his book, “Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776–1865”, that the death penalty might have ceased to exist in America were it not for the brutalizing that our society received from its Civil War...
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I guess he was saying that we as a nation became a hardened lot due to that war, and that the punishment of death for certain crimes did not seem unreasonable or that harsh. With the technological advances with electricity during the 19th century, there came along an invention that would make the death of criminals a little more humane, or so it was thought, especially compared to the gallows...
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