How Do You Understand The Death Penalty Debate?
Death penalty or capital punishment is the legal imposition of death as a punishment for crime. Crimes resulting in the death penalty are referred to as capital crimes including but not limited to murder, genocide, espionage and drug related offenses. Capital punishment can be in the form of electrocution, lethal injection, lethal gas, hanging and a firing squad. The practice of the death penalty has been used over the centuries in almost every country in the world although many countries have abolished it over the last few decades. With religious, political, and social ideologies surrounding the issue on capital punishment, it has become largely controversial and consistently a hot topic of debate amongst people of different backgrounds, racial origins, religious beliefs, political standing, social status and cultural practices. In 1890 execution by electrocution, which is also known as the electric chair, originated in the United Sates. The procedure is to strap the convicted crimina
