Capital Punishment: The Legal Punishment Of A Criminal

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crimes were recognized, and as a result over one thousand people a year
were faced with the sentence of death.
Now at modern time, the death penalty, has been rekindled. Although,
it is not as barbaric as it was. Now the law only allows itself the use
certain types of “disciplining”. In the early 18th and 19th century the death
penalty was inflicted in many ways. Some ways were, crucifixion, boiling in oil,
drawing and quartering, impalement, beheading, burning alive, crushing, tearing
asunder, stoning and drowning. In the late 19th century the types of
punishments were limited and only a few of them remained permissible by law.
In the 19th century capital punishment was to only be inflicted by the following
methods: hanging, electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad and lethal
injection.
The opinions brought upon us stating that the death penalty is a very
strong deterrent against crime holds allot of water. It is a proven statistical
fact that states that have reinstated ...

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