DEATH PENALTY
The death penalty has been a staple in the justice system of America
since its inception. Though very controversial, it has stood the test of time as
the ultimate punishment. Many countries are currently abolishing their death
penalty practice. America, on the other hand, has thirty-eight of fifty states
with laws regarding the death penalty. It seems the United States requires the
death penalty more than ever due to the increased rate of violent crime. Since
nineteen ninety more than three hundred fifty people have been put to death
with another three thousand three hundred in the waiting on death row. On a
larger scale, since nineteen seventy-six five hundred fifty-two executions have
occurred in the United States, the breakdown is as follows: three hundred
ninety-four by lethal injection, one hundred forty-one by electrocution, eleven
by gas chamber, three by hanging, and two by firing squad. Half of the post-
nineteen seventy-six......
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