The Pros And Cons Of Death Penalty

Should death row or death sentencing be legal or illegal? Ever since 1976, 1,389 convicted murderers were sentenced to death. Out of 1,389 convicted to death, there was 15 females. Death row has been around for a very long time, Death row dates back all the way to the very early B.C days. The definition of Death row/Death Sentence is, a sentence condemning a convicted defendant to death. Death row-Prison area housing inmates sentenced to death.

According to https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/part-i-history-death-penalty#intro the death penalty has been around ever since the Fifth century B.C, The romans were one of the first people to use the death penalty. Death penalty in romans times involved crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, being

Hanging has became the main common way all the way to the sixteenth century. In the sixteenth century under the British reign of King Henry VIII, as many as 72,000 people were convicted to the death penalty. With so many people being executed to death, they had to make more faster and new methods of execution. These new methods and executions styles are very harsh and brutal. They include boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering. These executions were convicted to people because of capital offenses, marrying a jew, not confessing to a crime, and for treason. By the 1700’s capital crime was at its highest, there was 222 crimes punishable to death. A few of the crimes include stealing, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit

Many states don't use Death Penalty though, there's as well some states that do have death penalty, but has never sentenced anyone to death in decades. Out of all 50 states, 31 states use death penalty. These 31 states include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming, and also U.S Gov’t and U.S Military. The states that abolished, or overturned the Death Penalty. These states include Alaska (1957), Connecticut (2012), Delaware (2016), Hawaii (1957), Illinois (2011), Iowa (1965), Maine (1887), MaryLand (2013), Massachusetts (1987), Michigan (1846), Minnesota (1911), New Jersey (2007), New Mexico (2009), New York (2007), North Dakota (1973), Rhode Island (1984), Vermont (1964), West Virginia (1965), Wisconsin (1853), also includes District of Columbia. United Kingdom last used Death Row in 1964 which was a hanging. In 1998 the death penalty was abolished, in 2004 the 13th protocol was the European Convention of Human Rights became binding on the United Kingdom, prohibiting the restoration of the death penalty as long as U.K is a party to the