Death penalty is a controversial topic for a research paper. You know that nowadays a lot of debates are carried out upon this topic. It is really hard to come to a single decision on this problem and it is more likely that you also will not do it in your death penalty research paper. Still, you will have to present your viewpoint and give some arguments for that.
 
There are loads of aspects about this topic that can be covered in your death penalty research paper. All of them have the arguments for and against. That is why you should study a lot of materials to know various points of view and to define what exact aspect you are going to discuss in your death penalty research paper.
 
We will give you some possible topics for your death penalty research paper.

• Study the history of death penalty. If you choose this topic, you should think over the country or several countries and study the history of death penalty there. Tell about the crimes that presupposed this kind of punishment. You can also tell about different ways of execution.
• Study the current situation in your death penalty research paper. Find out about those countries that still use death penalty and those that have refused it. Study all the laws that refer to death penalty. You can also give an official statistics in your death penalty research paper. For example, how many people were executed in a certain period of time?

• Investigate the economic side of this problem. Actually, this procedure is quite expensive and it is the taxpayers who in the reality give money for death penalty. In your death penalty research paper you can consider the ethical side of this question.
• It is very difficult to enumerate all the moral aspects that can be discussed in your death penalty research paper. You can choose any that you think is significant. Still, all those issues boil down to humane and democratic principles that our society lives in accordance with.

Thus, writing a death penalty research paper can be rather challenging, but your main task is to state your opinion and provide some proofs for it.