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Is Capital Punishment Justified? Although capital punishment has been abolished in the UK since 1965, some people still firmly believe that it should be brought back. In many countries the death penalty is still enforced, although it has been scientifically proven that the death penalty does not have a greater effect on the reduction of homicides than life imprisonment. In the 18th century the death penalty was never applied as widely as the law provided, due to procedures adopted to moderate the harshness of the law. Many offenders who committed capital crimes were pardoned, usually on the condition that they agreed to de transported to America. In the early 1900's the death penalty was scarcely used. The parliamentary system for capital punishment created dissatisfaction as it led to some executions that the public viewed as unjustified, while other types of murder escaped the death penalty because of the method used to commit...

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