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Bradley · What is **capital punishment**? · Are there any alternatives to capital punishment? · What type of execution method does California currently use ? · What is meant by [|Pro] capital punishment? · What is meant by [|Con] (Anti Capital Punishment)? · [|Moratorium] means? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moratorium
 * Capital punishment is the exicution of a convicted felon.
 * Life in prison.
 * Lethal injection.
 * When you agree with capital punishment.
 * If you disagree with it.
 * a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged 2: suspension of an ongoing activity.

· How many people were given capital punishment in California in the last 10 years? Sherman · How many people were given capital punishment in California since 1976? · For what crimes were they given capital punishment? · What is the relationship to people given capital punishment to people who commit similar types of crimes? · Have any juveniles been given capital punishment? · What is the number of women who have been given capital punishment ? · Do both [|women] and [|men] get capital punishment equally? · Are all races given capital punishment equally? David · Are all socio economic classes given capital punishment equally? · Is capital punishment a deterrent to crime? http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/06-03-2002/vo18no11_fallacies.htm · Who is most likely to get capital punishment? · Is it a violation of their constitutional rights? · What are five objections to capital punishment? · What are five arguments for capital punishment http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/thoughts.html · What is current public opinion of capital punishment (research poll data)? http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/opinion.htm
 * There were over 100 executions in the past 12 years.
 * There have been less than 300 executions in the past 20 years.
 * You would get the capital punishment if you murder.
 * People given the capitol punishment and other people are related because they all did something wrong in their lifes even though they might think it was the right thing to do.
 * Yes juveniles have been given the death penelty
 * 556 documented deaths.
 * Yes they are both given the death penalty equally.
 * yes all races are given capital punishment equally.
 * Yes, all socio-economic classes are given capital punishment equally.
 * "As Christian writer C.S. Lewis observes, "[deterrence] in itself, would be a very wicked thing to do. On the classical theory of punishment it was of course justified on the ground that the man deserved it. Why, in Heaven’s name, am I to be sacrificed to the good of society in this way? -- unless, of course, I deserve it." Inflicting a penalty merely to deter -- rather than to punish for deeds done -- is the very definition of cruelty. A purely deterrent penalty is one where a man is punished -- not for something that he did -- but for something someone else might do. Lewis explained the logical end of this argument: "If deterrence is all that matters, the execution of an innocent man, provided the public think him guilty, would be fully justified."
 * The majority of people sentenced to death since 1761 were white people, but blacks have commited a slightly higher ammount of murders.
 * When the Bill of Rights that banned "cruel and unusual punishment", the founding fathers that had adopted the bill had no problem implementing the death penalty.
 * If an innocent person is executed, there is no way of compensating for it, life sentences are cheaper, it violates human dignity, it's cruel, and people can do more help alive than dead.
 * Incapacitation of the criminal, cost, retribution, and deterrence, and "Lex Talionis", a life for a life.
 * In May of 2005 74% was for capital punishment, 23% were against and 3% had no opinion.

Cara · What are the [|myths] concerning capital punishment? · What moral concerns are brought up by capital punishment? Some feel that men and women are not equally punished. · Who decides if a law is constitutional or not? The Supreme Court. · What are the [|procedures] for a person given the death penalty? They are held in jail until their date then given a lethal injection.

· What is the name and address of the governor? Of your member of congress? Of your senator? State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814
 * Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger**

Office of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher 101 Main Street Suite 380 Attn: Kellee Barron Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Feinstein, Dianne 331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON DC 20510

Boxer, Barbara 112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON DC 20510 · How do you contact your local paper to submit a letter? · Are innocent people ever given capital punishment? Whoever · Collect any other important or interesting facts. [|http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/%7Etonya/spring/cap/con1.htm]

[|Pro & Con]