Ethics Of Capital Punishment
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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Blood. There was blood everywhere. There were streaks on the wall, droplets on the floor and huge pools on the bed and carpet. Three bodies lay sprawled on the floor, those of a woman and her two young children. Their throats had been cut to the point of near decapitation; the multiple stab wounds, lacerations, and foot prints on the skin loudly spoke of the viciousness of the crime. The only sound was that of a man laughing. He was sitting in the chair in the middle of the living room, surrounded by the corpses, just laughing. That was the scene that greeted the police upon their arrival to check out a suspicious sound at the Jones household, called in by a next door neighbor. When confronted by the officers the man said, "I didn't like them, they seemed too happy". There was no question of the man's guilt, his fingerprints were all over the house, on the murder weapon, his...