Capital punishment is a very sensitive subject in the United States. Many of our citizens are
divided with the subject of capital punishment. The main argument against the use of capital punishment
is the type of drugs that are administered to the prisoner, and which type of medical personal will oversee
the process.
Capital punishment is better known as the death penalty in some places. The execution of a
criminal that has committed a crime should be convicted in the court of law. Some of the many crimes
that would be considered to be capital punishment are murder, treason, arson, and rape is just a little list
of several infractions. The type of crimes that is in this category is from the violent crime list, homicide,
rape and sexual assault, robbery, assault, and stalking and or intimidation of a person or group. The other
categories would be property crimes, drug, the fighting of gangs, hate crime, cybercrimes, identity theft,
the use of weapons this is also considered to be in the list of capital punishments.
Capital punishment can be found as soon as in ancient times as early as 1750 B.C. in the code of
Hammurabi. From the beginning of the fall of Rome to the beginnings of the modern era capital
punishment was used throughout all of Western Europe. In the 18 th century there was a movement for the
abolishment of capital punishment with the writings of Montesquieu and Voltaire and also as Cesare
Beccaria’s essay on crimes and punishments of 1764. Jeremy Bentham that lived in Great Britain was
influential in having the number of capital crimes reduced in the 18 th and the 19th century. Venezuela in
1863 and San Marino in 1865 and Costa Rica in 1877 were some of the first countries that abolished
capital punishment.
Capital punishment would be the practice of the executing a person as a punishment for the
specific crime that they have been caught for and convicted in a court of law. This practice would only be
conducted in the states that practice the punishment of capital punishment which would be in some states.
As of 2014 the states named were executing the murders, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri, Ohio,
Virginia, Georgia, and Arizona to name a few. The most executions that have been performed by far are
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