They can always find other methods, howver they can be more painful. For example if a criminal survies lethal injection, he can be hung, or shot. Prisoners have survied hanging, lethal injections, gas chambers, and electrocutions. The methods that are guarented to execute a prisoner is burning, stoning, beheading, and fire squad.
Capital punishment is legally sentencing someone to death through means of a countries legislation. So that is what it should be.
Capital punishment (executing someone) existed in France from it's beginnings, until a few years ago, when it was abolished in favor of life imprisonment without parole.
a hanging is a form of capital punishment where someone is hung by a rope around their neck until dead.
That the chance of killing someone that is truly innocent is too great.
No. It is when you are sentenced to death in a court and the sentence is carried out in a prison. The police do not do it.
The word you are looking for is "punishment." It refers to the penalty imposed on someone who has broken the law.
It's usually the same punishment as if they were driving their own car.
You mean capitAl punishment- it means the death sentence being given to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
I think it is morally wrong to murder someone because they have previously carried out a murder or other crime punishable by death.
The cost of a lethal injection is $86. The cost per year for being incarcerated is $22,000. A lifetime in prison costs $1.5 million dollars shooting squad costs the amount per shell fired.
Arguments put forward in essays agreeing with capital punishment may often be such issues as the need to have a strong deterrent, that taking a life requires the loss of one's own, and that keeping someone in prison for their lifetime is a pointless exercise.
Capital punishment is also called the death penalty or execution and. It is currently an option in 32 states of the US.