No, in the case of Coker v. Georgia in 1977, found that the rape of an adult women is "grossly disproportionate" and thus unconstitutional. The 2008 ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana finds that rape of a child where the crime did not result in death is cruel and unusual and thus unconstitutional.
In most states it's reserved for murderers and rapists.
The death penalty is giving to thoses who have killed a person.
It is where prisoners who have been given the death penalty are housed. The purpose is to keep them out of the general prison population.
Socrates was given hemlock to drink.
adolf Eichman.
July 22, 2003
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Death! It is often given to prisoners with death penalty.
Socrates.He was given a cup of Hemlock which he drank willingly.
An injection is given to them to kill them. Most like how people are killed if they are given the death penalty today.
There have been almost 1300 executions via the death penalty in the United States. About 1264 of these executions have been since 1974.
Generally speaking, the death penalty is not given to mentally "defective" or infirm, or mentally ill persons. Judges are also reluctant to sentence youth to death.