CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Capital Punishment


A woman and her two children are sitting in the livingroom

watching television. There was a knock at the door and the woman

got up to answer the door, as she proceeded to do so gunshots

were fired through the door and she was shot in her stomach. The

children heard the shots and ran to hide. The robbers than kicked

down the door and started shooting her in the head at close

range. Later on the robbers where caught; should they receive the

death penalty?

Over the years, most executions have resulted from

convictions for murder. For instance, Karla Faye Tucker was

convicted of a grisly pickax murder in 1984. Karla Tucker and her

boyfriend Daniel Garrett, reacted in revenge because Jerry Lynne

Dean had leaked motor oil onto Ms. Tucker's carpet while Dean was

repairing his motorcycle. Tucker and Garrett, full of heroin,


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