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Overview of the Death Penalty

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as punishment for a crime. A prisoner sentenced to death awaits execution on death row. Methods of execution include electrocution, lethal injection, hanging, and strangulation. While some countries still use the death penalty, its use has been banned in many places. Countries that still have the death penalty reserve it for very serious crimes like murder, terrorism, rape, and human trafficking. However, some nations also impose the death penalty for lesser crimes like theft and drug offenses. The author believes the death penalty should not be permitted and that life imprisonment is a better alternative punishment.

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Overview of the Death Penalty

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as punishment for a crime. A prisoner sentenced to death awaits execution on death row. Methods of execution include electrocution, lethal injection, hanging, and strangulation. While some countries still use the death penalty, its use has been banned in many places. Countries that still have the death penalty reserve it for very serious crimes like murder, terrorism, rape, and human trafficking. However, some nations also impose the death penalty for lesser crimes like theft and drug offenses. The author believes the death penalty should not be permitted and that life imprisonment is a better alternative punishment.

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Death penalty

Death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a state-sanctioned


practice of killing a person as punishment for a crime. The sentence
ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a
death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an
execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits
execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death
row".
The form of execution imposed must not inflict unnecessary pain on the
prisoner. Some of the forms of execution applied today include the use of
an electric chair or electrocution, lethal injections, strangulation, hanging.

Death penalty around the world


Nowadays, the death penalty has become rare because its use as a
method of punishment has been banned by many governments. Countries
that still carry out punishment by death penalty constitutes about only a
third of the countries in the world. Such countries include Iran, Iraq, China,
Saudi Arabia, United States, Afghanistan, among others. Other countries,
like Australia, Canada, Mexico, and all members of the Council of Europe
have abolished the use of the death penalty.
In most countries that practice the death penalty, the penalty is reserved
only for very serious crimes like murder, terrorism rape, kidnapping and
human trafficking, illegal drug trafficking and corruption. In some states,
some sexual offenses such as prostitution homosexuality and adultery are
also punishable by the death penalty. However, some countries also
impose the death penalty on smaller crimes such as general theft and
drugs.
In my opinion, the death penalty shouldn’t be permited. Nobody has the
right to take somebody’s life for whatever crime they comitted. I also
think that the punishment for comitting very serious crimes should always
be a life sentence and not a death sentence because if you spend the rest
of your life in prison you have all the that time to think about what you did
but if you get executed it’s a easier way of getting away with what you did.

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