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There have been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of on persons convi ....

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.... important restrictions on the use of in many northern states, while in the United States, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island abandon the practice altogether. Pennsylvania adopted a new law, in 1974, to distinguish the different degrees of murder and used mostly for premeditated murder, murders which are planned out before they are executed. was also confined to crimes of murder, including felony murder. A felony murder is any homicide committed in the course of committing another felony such as rape of robbery. After the 1972 court ruling that all but a few capital statutes were unconstitutional, thirty-seven states revised and reenacted their ....