Death penalty for women in the modern world seems slightly inevitable. Women today are gender bias when it comes to being executed. This also includes death row whereas 3,035 people on death row only 54 of them are women, according to Huffington Post.
The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. There are different methods of the death penalty that has been used throughout time. Some of these methods are still used today but only legal in certain states.
The first method of the death penalty is lethal injection. Lethal injection is an injection administered for the purposes of euthanasia or as a means of capital punishment. The lethal injection is most of time painless. There
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It takes a few switches till the person is considered dead.
The third method of the death penalty is the gas chambers. A gas chambers is an airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas as a means of execution. In a gas chamber, they pump cyanide gas into the chamber or other poisonous gas. The person then breathes it in like oxygen and dies with the feeling of suffocation.
The fourth method of the death penalty is a firing squad. A firing squad used execution wise is a group of soldiers detailed to shoot a condemned person. This requires the inmate to be bound to a chair with leather straps across his waist and head. There are sandbags around the inmate to absorb the blood when the inmate is being shot. They also must blindfold the inmate and when they start firing they try to aim for the heart and main organs.
The final method is considered an old fashion execution method and that is hanging. The hanging execution method is where the person is dropped and suspended from a rope around the neck resulting in death by severing the spinal cord around the neck, or strangulation. This was a more common execution in the