The death penalty is giving to thoses who have killed a person.
The sunni and shia religions started attacking each other for awhile after Saddam was given the death penalty and some of the religious minorities were attacked in Iraq by people involved with terrorism as well just for being a different religion. Some were worried it would turn into a civil war splitting the country.
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.
July 22, 2003
adolf Eichman.
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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.
There have been almost 1300 executions via the death penalty in the United States. About 1264 of these executions have been since 1974.
An injection is given to them to kill them. Most like how people are killed if they are given the death penalty today.
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.