DEATH PENALTY



The death penalty has been a staple in the justice system of America

since its inception. Though very controversial, it has stood the test of time as

the ultimate punishment. Many countries are currently abolishing their death

penalty practice. America, on the other hand, has thirty-eight of fifty states

with laws regarding the death penalty. It seems the United States requires the

death penalty more than ever due to the increased rate of violent crime. Since

nineteen ninety more than three hundred fifty people have been put to death

with another three thousand three hundred in the waiting on death row. On a

larger scale, since nineteen seventy-six five hundred fifty-two executions have

occurred in the United States, the breakdown is as follows: three hundred

ninety-four by lethal injection, one hundred forty-one by electrocution, eleven

by gas chamber, three by hanging, and two by firing squad. Half of the post-

nineteen seventy-six......

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