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.
Someone who breaks the law is arrested.
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.