Capital punishment is the most severe form of corporal punishment as it requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender. Today, while more than half of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law or practice, the United States continues to use the death penalty in all but 13 states. Many believe that the death penalty is unconstitutional, because it violates the eighth amendment, which protects citizens from "cruel and unusual punishment." …showed first 75 words of 880 total…

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