There has been a great debate on whether to execute an individual who has committed crime worth death. Many tend to question the relevance of the punishment. Capital punishment has been in existence long enough dating back to 1976 when the first execution ever happened in the United States. Capital punishment is also referred to as execution; others refer to it as the death penalty. There are many states in the United States that practice this penalty, ranging to almost 32 states. This death penalty is legal. The death penalty cuts across all genders, races, religion, and ages. It is unfortunate that juveniles can also be sentenced to death if they are found guilty of a crime that is worth death. However, in 1st March 2005, the supreme courts of U.S.A under the headship of Ropper Simmons, abolished the execution of
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The ruling declared the execution of juveniles as unconstitutional. According to CNN, the United States in the year 2014 had a row of 57 women and 22 juveniles to be executed. The different states had their distinct ways of dealing with the death penalty however, there were those methods that were common across the states. There are various methods that were used to carry out this death penalty among countries that practiced it. Among the methods are; hanging, being electrocuted, burning, crushing and being injected with a lethal drug that will slowly take away one’s life. Among them all, the common one was that of hanging. There are cases of people who committed suicide before they were sentenced to death because the method under which they were to undergo execution was not affable. The Bureau of justice is responsible for the measures to be taken on victims convicted of murder. This body is expected to be fair and just to be able to carry out its
The ruling declared the execution of juveniles as unconstitutional. According to CNN, the United States in the year 2014 had a row of 57 women and 22 juveniles to be executed. The different states had their distinct ways of dealing with the death penalty however, there were those methods that were common across the states. There are various methods that were used to carry out this death penalty among countries that practiced it. Among the methods are; hanging, being electrocuted, burning, crushing and being injected with a lethal drug that will slowly take away one’s life. Among them all, the common one was that of hanging. There are cases of people who committed suicide before they were sentenced to death because the method under which they were to undergo execution was not affable. The Bureau of justice is responsible for the measures to be taken on victims convicted of murder. This body is expected to be fair and just to be able to carry out its