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Although many convicts who commit violent crimes like rape and murder deserve the death penalty, should they die a slow and painful death? Thirty-four states in America use some form of execution. The most popular form of execution is death by lethal injection.
Capital punishment also known as the death penalty is the execution or the killing of an individual by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes that result in the death penalty are called capital crimes. Many people disagree whether capital punishment is moral or discourages people from committing capital crimes. Supporters of the death penalty feel that if a person takes a life, then they should forfeit their own life. Capital punishment and lethal injection is one of the most controversial topics today; it is currently on trial in the Supreme Court.
There are several methods of execution, hanging, death by shooting, the gas chamber, the electric chair and lethal injection. All executions before the 1900’s were done......

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