Death Penalty

Throughout history, societies have punished criminals by executing them, but now many countries have abolished the death penalty. In the United States however, the national government and many of the submits continue to sentence convicted criminals to death. This leads us to the incertitude: Should the government have the power to sentence convicted criminals to death? forwards we approach this question lets take a look at the history of the death penalty and different positionors that could affect the cause to this question.

Although the first case of capital penalisation is not documented, we have that it was brought to North America by European colonist in the 18th century. In Europe, murderers, thieves, spies, alleged witches, and over 100 other so-called crimes were punished by death. Although abeyance was the most crude form of execution, other methods such as stoning, beheading, burning at the stake or being broken on a wheel were used. Hangings usually took place at high high noon on a main street or in a town square to be viewed by the public. They were excitedly watched as if it were a new episode of the sopranos. In fact public executions often turned into outdoor festivals in which the urban center advertised the execution through posters, handbills, and notices in newspapers.



In the 1700s after being convicted and sentenced to death, unlike today, you would be executed usually within less than a week.

Executions moved through from hanging and other methods to electrocution. When in 1889, New York passed the electrical Execution Act, which tell death by the electric chair as the states new method of execution. As with many other ways of executing people, this way is both cruel and uncommon punishment. Although there are many instances were cruel and unusual punishment were used, I am going to...

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