Part 1 of Essay
– An Overview “The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available.”- Justice Thurgood Marshall Imagine a man who commits murder on ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... appropriate punishment in the Bible. American colonists used before the United States was a country, and most states use it today. Currently, however, there is a great deal of controversy surrounding the death penalty. Capital cases are long and expensive, and there is no proof as to whether deters crime. For these reasons total abolition may be the best way to resolve the controversy. If the laws concerning were modified, however, could become much cheaper, and possibly a lot more effective. – Steve Brinke ....