Capital punishment Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 9 pages of analysis of History of Capital Punishment.

Capital punishment Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 9 pages of analysis of History of Capital Punishment.
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History of Capital Punishment

Summary: A history of both capital punishment and the debate over whether or not it should be practiced, including the author's own opinion against it. While capital punishment has been practiced since ancient times, debate over its use has taken place since the eighteenth century.
Capital punishment is a legal infliction of death for violating a criminal law. The practice of capital punishment is as old as government itself. Capital punishment or in easier terms the death penalty is applied to people who have done various forms of bad behavior. Method of execution are crucifixion, stoning, drowning, impaling, and beheading but in such present time execution is formed by lethal gas or injections, electrocution, hanging, or shooting. I truly do not believe in death penalty. To me I think executing someone for various form of wrongdoing would not punish them. Instead I think that is just taking them out of there misery. The punishment for doing something wrong that is so unlike for that the person committing such act, should not be killed but put through suffering and a un believed way of living in jail for the rest of there life.

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