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 ...

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