I really feel like I need to get this out in the open, because I know a lot of people will agree with me on this topic. The topic is capital punishment. Many people find it unjust to use capital punishment, but I bet there are a few people in this country that are completely against capital punishment, that would agree to use it on a guy like Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Capital Punishment is to be put to death for the crime in which you have been committed of doing, also known as the Death Penalty. Now some people see it as an unjustified act upon a human being, but wasn't their act upon another human being unjust too? My mother always said that two wrongs don't make a right, but if your father, mother, daughter, son, or best friend, had been brutally slain by one of these murderers, would you truly object to their death. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Now through the government there are a only a few methods that one can be put to death. They can be hanged, electrocuted, decapitated, lethal injection, firing squad, and the gas chamber. Of course, some of these methods are used in other countries but not here in the United States. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2007, 42 inmates were executed. All 42 were men and executed by lethal injection, except one who was put to death by the electric chair.
As of May 2008, 36 states hold the Death Penalty and 14 are without it and that is including the District of Columbia.
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