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=Spievogel Says... = - By the 18th century most of the European states had developed a "hierarchy of courts" - England kept judicial torture--using torture techniques to obtain confessions - Public executions were popular--needed because the police force was too weak - Where nobles were executed by beheading, lower class criminals were tortured - Philosophers wanted a new approach to justice - Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishments" said punishment should not be brutal  - Against capital punishment  - Imprisonment made a more lasting impression  - It sets an example of barbarism--committing murder to punish for murder is absurd - By the end of the 18th century, there was a decline in capital punishment - Criminals were placed in cell and disciplined regularly

=Internet Informs... = -Although capital punishment was most commonly used on murderers, people of all ages could be executed for mild crimes, like pick-pocketing or setting fire to haystacks. []

- There was virtually no in between punishments-- one would either be set free or killed <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">- Capital punishment is less costly than keeping a criminal in prison for life; and it prevents overcrowding in jail cells <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">- Most death sentences also involved torture, such as burning at the stake, breaking on the wheel, and slow strangulation; another more extreme version is cutting up in pieces while still alive <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">- The idea that punishment and death should be swift and humane, whether by guillotine, hanging, the garotte, or the headman's Axe became more popular <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">﻿ - <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The guillotine became a popular form of execution in France in 1789, when Dr. Joseph Guillotin proposed that all criminals be executed by the same method and that torture should be kept to a minimum. Decapitation was thought to be the least painful and most humane method of execution at the time <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> - This method was used in the French Revolution <span style="color: #201818; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">- Lethal injection, electrocution, and lethal gas have become the preferred methods of execution in the United States, mostly because these methods appear to be less offensive to the public, and more humane for the prisoner. <span style="color: #201818; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> []

=<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Today's 'text... = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">-Since World War II, the death penalty has been abolished in several states and countries. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">-It is not employed in 13 states and D.C.--the states being Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. []

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">-For the most part, the highly religious are in favor of the death penalty. However, this varies from religion to religion and is a generality. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">-Although also a generality, Republicans and Conservatives are for capital punishment where Democrats and Liberals are against.

-<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi