Capital Punishment, the manner of chastisement used on an offender after they have been proven guilty, has been a debatable topic for years and years. In the Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopaedia, Capital Punishment generally refers to flogging, branding, or mutilation as a punishment of crime (227). Some say Capital Punishment is not the answer to deterring crime, and it promotes violence. I say it is the ultimate deterrence to repetitive crime committing and Capital Punishment should be the solution to a violation of criminal law.

As defined in Webster's Dictionary, the word "capital" refers to first in importance, affecting the head, punishable with death. Punishment is defined as a penalty, a sentence given (24). In the earlier period, people were executed by being beheaded. Today, most felons are dealt with by given a lethal injection. There have been and still are many methods of execution used. Various techniques used in...