Capital Punishment In Britain In The Tenth Century

Capital punishment is the legal taking of a person’s life, and is the most simple and common means of dealing with offenders against society. The various methods used to carry out this form of punishment have undergone many changes throughout history; they have evolved from burnings at the stake and beheadings to lethal injections used today. During the great depression era of the 1930s there were more executions than in any other decade in American history. As eras have transformed, so have the methods of execution. Hanging was the number one practice of execution used in Britain in the Tenth Century A.D. In 1880, the electric chair was invented and became the popular form of execution. The work “capital” in “capital punishment” refers to a person’s head. Today, most prisoners are executed by lethal injection, which is now the most universal method of execution in the United States. Hanging became the number one form of execution used in Britain in the Tenth Century A.D. in the United States, Jane Champion was the first woman to be hanged in James City, Virginia in the year of 1632. During this century, around 72,000 people were executed by hanging. The federal government believed capital punishment to be an applicable sentence for firm offences, such as the murder of a government official, …show more content…
According to Sheriff Don Parnell, acting sheriff from my home town in 2003 said, “Capital punishment should only be for to the people who commit a hideous crime, as if by decapitating an individual or by committing multiple crimes”. Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal cannot undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. Capital punishment does not alter a person from committing