Executions Gone Wrong

FINAL PAPER

EXECUTIONS
GONE WRONG!!




































ANITA R. FOSTER
MS. FRYE
GE321

EXECUTIONS GONE WRONG!!

From spontaneous combustion to torture by needle, our nation’s death penalty has shown some flaws. Where do we draw the line between what is or is not humane during the execution of a convicted felon? Do we just call it as part of the nasty business of execution? Whatever the answer we must first understand our capital punishment and its history before we can understand, and hopefully correct, the errors.
The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the Fourteenth Century B.C.'s Hittite Code; in the Seventh Century B.C.'s...