Capital_Punishment

Capital Punishment CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Every year there are about 250 people added to death row and 35 executed. The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United Sates today. Once a jury has convicted a criminal of an offense they go to the second part of the trial, the punishment phase. If the jury recommends the death penalty and the judge agrees, then the criminal will face some form of execution. The most common form used today is lethal injection. Capital punishment was once ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, from 1972 to 1976. After new methods were introduced, the decision was reversed. Capital punishment is an effective way to get rid of convicted killers in our society today; therefore we support the death penalty If there was no death penalty, the worst punishment you could get, would be a life sentence. This would end up costing the taxpayers a lot of money. Although the cost of execution is about three punishment, death, today, penalty, life, capital, people, once, form, convicted, society, sentence, murderers, murderer, jury, eye, execution, executed, end, criminal, again, about, year, worst, world, willing, way, very, united, unconstitutional, trial, times, three, therefore, taxpayers, talionis, supreme, support, streets, stay, statement, serving, serious, sente nce, second, sates, safer, safe, ruled, row