Bringing Back Capital Punishment

Bringing Back Capital Punishment

For my English assignment I have been asked to consider the question

whether or not capital punishment should be brought back. I am going

to be concentrating on America because it is the closest to our style

of culture.

Capital punishment refers to the taking of life of someone who has

been found guilty of committing a crime.

Some of the earlier methods were crucifixion, boiling in oil, drawing

and quartering, impalement, beheading, burning alive, crushing,

tearing asunder, stoning and drowning.

In the United States, the death penalty is currently authorized in one

of five ways: hanging, electrocution (introduced by New York State in

1890), the gas chamber (adopted in Nevada in 1923), firing squad which

is used only in Utah, or lethal injection (introduced in 1977 by

Oklahoma). In most nations that still retain the death penalty for

some crimes, hanging or the firing squad are the preferred methods of

execution. In some countries that adhere strictly to the traditional

practices of Islam, beheading or stoning is still occasionally

employed as punishment.

Capital punishment is still used in some states of America, South

Africa, China and Russia. The most common crimes committed are treason

and murder.

William Kemmler was the first man to be executed in the electric

chair, at Auburn Prison in New York on August 7, 1890. Kemmler was

convicted of murdering his girlfriend Tillie Ziegler with an axe in

1889. [IMAGE]

The electric chair is used primarily in the United States to execute

prisoners who have been sentenced to death. The picture shows a chair

from New York State, where e...

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...is cruel and inhumane, but sometimes it

can be justified. For example a recent story on the news was the

murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. In this case I think the

death penalty should have been used to Ian Huntley, the man that

killed these children.

Below is a picture of the two girls before they were murdered and the

man and who killed them and his girlfriend who withheld information.

[IMAGE]Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells

James Bulger R.I.PThis is a picture of James Bulger, a two year old

boy who was killed by two ten year olds in 1993. They beat him until

he was dead and threw him on the railway lines to make it look like an

accident.

In my opinion you shouldn't take the life of someone even if they have

murdered someone. Only God has the right to take a life, "the lord

giveth and taketh"