Capital Punishment

PART 1.
Capital punishment is the severest form of legal punishment today. In this paper, I
intend to state the history of the problem, the two sides of the issue, state possible
solutions, and evaluate those solutions. There are many methods of execution. Procedures
authorized in the United States now are electrocution, the gas chamber, lethal injection,
and the firing squad, which is used only in Utah. The main options for capital punishment,
though, are lethal injection and lethal gas (Snell, 1998). Examples of the death penalty
forbidden by law are crucifixion, boiling in oil, drawing and quartering, impalement,
beheading, burning alive, crushing, being torn into bits and pieces, stoning, and drowning.
Hanging, the firing squad, beheading, and stoning are options used in some countries but
are outlawed in the United States. Most of the countries applying these methods are
followers of the traditional practices of Islam. Even the Bible prescribed death as a
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