Muslims are against the death penalty as the religion of Islam is all about peace.
In those places that have a death penalty, it is legal because it is established by the appropriate legislature and upheld by the appropriate courts.
The death penalty is a legal institution, not a physical object, therefore it contains no atoms.
In the United Kingdom, capital punishment for all crimes was officially abolished in 1998.
The death penalty is legal in the US because the US Supreme Court ruled that it is not cruel or unusual punishment, and the Federal and some state legislatures have not seen fit to repeal it.
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The death penalty is legal in 32 U.S. states. In the United States, 1,386 people have been executed.
No. THe penalty is prison or death, but most people convicted are sent to prison.
No amendment "challenges" the death penalty. The 8th Amendment has been used as a legal basis for challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty. The argument is that the 8th Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment" and that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment and therefore is prohibited by the US Constitution. This argument was successful in earlier cases, not because the death penalty itself was cruel and unusual but because of the way it was administered. The death penalty is allowed if it is administered without racial or ethnic bias and in a non-cruel manner.
Laws vary from state to state and country to country. I don't know of any legal jurisdiction in the world that has such a penalty.
Yes Atheism would be a sin.AdditionWorse yet in many Islamic countries apostasy carries the penalty of death.
The death penalty is unconstitutional, as decided by the Constitutional Court in the case of S v Makwanyane and AnotherSee related link