The death penalty is a punishment of execution given to someone who has been legally convicted of a capital crime. Death penalty to me is executing ones actions against another, some may think the death penalty is revenge. When using the death penalty it’s cost more to put people on death row than to keep them in prison (Death Penalty:Essay Research).
There are 5 different methods execution. There are lethal injections, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, and hanging. Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a combination of poisons into a person with a fatal dose of drugs (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing immediate death (Lethal Injection). Electrocution is death caused by electric shock, electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. Gas Chamber is an airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas as a means of execution (Google). Hanging is the act, an instance, or the form of
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55.8% of the death row population is White, 41.9% is Black and 2.3% is of another race.Men on death row make up 98%, while women make up 2% 8,032 people have been sentenced to death from 1977 until 2012. 8.6% of inmates had a prior homicide conviction. The median education level of death row inmates is 12th grade. Of death row inmates, 54.5% have never married, 20.2% are divorced or separated, 21.8% are currently married and 3.5% are widowed. 67.1% had prior felony convictions. As of 12/31/11, 25.8% of all inmates were age 30 to 39 and 48% were age 25 to 44. 0.9% of inmates are under the age of 25, and 3.8% are older than 65. The following information is taken from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: Capital Punishment and is the statistical data of the death