Core question: Should the death penalty be allowed?
Core background reading. These 2 sites give both sides of the argument, and provide statistics, quotes, and other very valuable resources.
You must focus on these two website exclusively on Day 1 of research:
ProCon.org. This website is intended to give both sides of the issue, provide facts and lots of evidence for why some people support and others oppose this issue.
http://deathpenalty.procon.org/
Pew Forum. This website does a nice job of showing both sides of the issue, with an emphasis on some of the recent Supreme Court cases that have involved the death penalty.
http://www.pewforum.org/topics/issues/Death-Penalty/
Additional websites that you might look at later on in the research process:
Supports the death penalty:
This is a website that is organized by the lead prosecutor for Clark County, Indiana. This site is very well known and respected for containing a large amount of verifiable data related to the arguments in support of the death penalty. (there is also a link off of his site that has a list of many additional pro-death penalty sites)
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/death.htm
Opposes to the death penalty:
American Civil Liberties Union: Clealy opposes the death penalty and has a lot of information to support their point of view.
http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment
Very cool website for both sides of the argument. This is how others have debated this topic, included the major reasons pro/con and the sources used to support their point of view:
http://idebate.org/debatabase/debates/law-crime/house-supports-death-penalty
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