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Essay on Death Penalty or Capital Punishment Con
Death penalty is a legal infliction of death as a punishment for violating criminal law. All the way through history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading. In the present day capital punishment is typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting. Of the 38 U.S. states that currently allow capital punishment, 11 states still use the electric chair.
One of those states is Georgia, where this electric chair sits in the Diagnostic and Classification Center in Atlanta. The death penalty is the most contentious penal practice in the modern world. Additional harsh, physical forms of criminal punishment—referred to as corporal punishment—have generally been eliminated in modern times as uncivilized and unnecessary. In the majority of countries, contemporary methods of punishment—such as imprisonment or fines—no longer involve the infliction of physical pain. Although imprisonment and fines are universally recognized as necessary to the control of crime, the nations of the world are split on the issue of capital punishment. About 90 nations have abolished the death penalty and an almost equal number of nations (most of which are developing countries) retain it.
The trend in most industrialized nations has been to first stop executing prisoners and then to substitute long terms of imprisonment for death as the most severe of all criminal penalties. The United States is an important exception to this trend. The federal government and a majority of U.S. states provide for the death penalty, and on average 75 executions occur each year throughout the United States.( Latzer, Barry (2001)The execution of death penalty is as old as government itself. For nearly all of history, it has not been considered controversial......
