Write a 7 page essay on SPECIFIC MORAL ISSUES (DEATH PENALTY).
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In total, there have been approximately 345 executions within Massachusetts, including 26 convicted of witchcraft.
Until 1951, murder in the first degree called for a mandatory punishment of death. In 1951, the law was changed to allow the jury the discretion to recommend against a death sentence after considering mitigating circumstances – in which case the sentence would be life imprisonment -unlessthe murder was committed in connection with a rape or attempted rape, in which case the death sentence was mandatory.