Capital Punishment

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Capital Punishment is defined as the legal infliction of the death penalty. The death penalty is corporal punishment in its most severe form and is used instead of life long imprisonment.Putting people to death that have committed extremely terrible crimes is a practice of ancient condition, but it has become a very controversial issue in todays society. Capital punishment has been used for centuries, even the Bible contains over thirty stories or incidents about a person put to death for a crime they committed. Public executions stopped after 1936. The death penalty has been inflicted in many different ways. Today in the United States, there are five ways that the death penalty is done. These criminals are put to death by a lethal injection, electrocution, lynching, a firing squad, or the gas chamber. These punishments are much less severe than the forms of execution in the past. In the past, people were executed by crucifixion, boiling in oil, impalement, beheading, burning alive, stoning, and even drowning.

The methods used today compared to those of history are not meant for torture but instead for punishment for heinous crimes and to rid the earth of these dangerous people. Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Cases of wrongful execution are used as an argument by opponents of capital punishment. A number of people are claimed to have been innocent victims of the death penalty. Newly-available DNA evidence has allowed the exoneration and release of more than 15 death row inmates since 1992 in the United States. Though statistics and news of repete offenders shows capital punishment would benifit the econemy and elemanate many repete offenders it is very important that the innocent are not wrongly accused and that evidence is prosented acratly and throuly. According to "Death Penalty Satistics," on 65% of the US population supports Capital Punishment....
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