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Capital punishment, or death penalty, is the execution to a prisoner for a serious crime. Some of the main serious crimes that a prisoner can go to death row are: treason and murder. The different types of methods used to punish the prisoners are: strangulation, burning, boiling, crushing, gassing, hanging, poisoning, and the famous electric chair. In the United States of America, thirty-eight states out of the fifty use the death penalty. Since 1976, there have been nine hundred and eighty executions in America, with Texas having the most executions out of any state.
In the state of Texas, a man by the name of Cameron Todd Willingham was executed on February 17, 2004 at age thirty-six. Willingham was punished with lethal injection because he was sentenced to death for killing his three children in Corsicana in December of 1991. The court said that Willingham intentionally set his house on fire and let his three children die. A witness said that an accelerant was poured onto the......

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