Capital Punishment

Capital punishment is an issue, which is still largely talked about even after it has been banned in Canada. The death penalty is a cruel form of punishment and should be abolish in the United States of America as it has been in Canada. There are many ways in which to explain how the death penalty came to be and what methods are used in order to attempt this cruel way to kill a person. To this are, two sides to the story, the pros and the cons. By understanding how the death penalty came to be, through its history.

As we go forth into the future, the list of methods to kill people will become larger but there are seven main ways of killing the convicted. Hanging is one. If conducted properly, the neck will break. To this method death comes quickly. The electric chair is when a convict is strapped into a chair and an electric current is passed through its body. The exact time of death is unknown but four to ten minutes is reasonable. Firing squad is the most disgusting of them all. It is when several marksmen shoot the convict right in the heart. Death comes as quickly as the bullet hits the defenseless heart. The gas chamber is when cyanide is dropped into acid producing hydrogen cyanide, an intensely dangerous, sanguinary gas. It takes various minutes of misery and agony before the convict dies. Lethal injection is when a lethal gas is place into the convict strapped down to the table. Guillotine is a famous French invention and it is also a form of punishment. It severs the neck and death comes rapidly. Finally stoning is the last on the list. It is when the convict is standing and people throw rocks at him or her. This is used mostly in Muslim countries as a punishment for murder, adultery and other crimes.

The pro side of capital punishment is seen by a lot of people. Some common reasons for them believing in the death penalty are as follows. The Bible, to them the Bible requires the death penalty for a wide range of crimes, murder and homosexual