Should Murder Be Punishable by Death? The enforcement of the death penalty has always been a controversial topic in America. The death penalty dates back to the fourteenth century. Although, in America the death penalty was not used until 1608 in Virginia. It was brought to the Americans by the European settlers when they came to the new world. Their influence of capital punishment was so strong that America was using the death penalty more than …showed first 75 words of 638 total…

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