Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating Criminal law. Throughout 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. Today capital punishment is typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, Electrocution, hanging or shooting. The death penalty is the most controversial penal practice in the modern world. Other harsh, physical …showed first 75 words of 3144 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3144 total…should not be allowed to walk the streets. Once a person has killed there is a good change that it could happen again. Convicted murderers should be given the death penalty and have it carried out at once. The death penalty is a controversial sentence. Not everyone feels the same way, but I believe that, in America, the death penalty for murderers is beneficial to the economy and it's a punishment that fits the crime.