Capital Punishment Report
Capital Punishment Report
Capital Punishment Report
Capital Punishment is also called “Death Penalty” it is the execution of an offender or a criminal
sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense.
Example of a capital punishment are “hanging, electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad, and
lethal injection.”
Hanging- to put to death by suspension by the neck, to suspend by the neck until death
especially as a form of execution
Electrocution- death by electric shock, electric current passing through the body.
Gas chamber- an airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas as a means of execution.
Firing squad- a form of execution usually reserved for military personnel. The concept is
simple: a prisoner either stands or sits against a brick wall or some other heavy barrier. Five or
more soldiers line up side by side several feet away, and each one aims their firearm directly at
the prisoner's heart.
Lethal injection- is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a
barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.
Another example of Capital pusnishment is Tokhang, which is implemented by our President,
Rodrigo Duterte, where people are killed for using drugs.
Places that still practice death penalty or Capital punishment is legal
Legal — Death penalty is legal and in use.
Rare — Death penalty is legal, but no executions have taken place in at least 10 years.
Serious — Death penalty is legal, but only used in extreme cases such as war crimes.
Country Type Country Type Country Type
Afghanistan legal Guyana legal Peru serious
Algeria rare India legal Puerto Rico legal
Antigua and Barbuda legal Indonesia legal Qatar legal
Bahamas legal Iran legal Russia rare
Bahrain legal Iraq legal Saint Kitts and Nevis legal
Bangladesh legal Israel seriou Saint Lucia legal
s
Barbados legal Jamaica legal Saint Vincent & legal
Grenadines
Belarus legal Japan legal Saudi Arabia legal
Belize legal Jordan legal Sierra Leone rare
Botswana legal Kazakhstan seriou Singapore legal
s
Brazil seriou Kenya rare Somalia legal
s
Brunei rare Kuwait legal South Korea rare
Burkina Faso seriou Laos rare South Sudan legal
s
Cameroon rare Lebanon legal Sri Lanka rare
Central African Reublicrare Lesotho legal Sudan legal
Chile seriou Liberia rare Syria legal
s
China legal Libya legal Taiwan legal
Comoros legal Malawi rare Tajikistan rare
Cuba legal Malaysia legal Tanzania rare
Dominica legal Maldives rare Thailand legal
DR Congo legal Mali rare Tonga rare
Egypt legal Mauritania rare Trinidad and Tobago legal
El Salvador seriou Morocco rare Tunisia rare
s
Equatorial Guinea legal Myanmar rare Uganda legal
Eritrea rare Niger rare United Arab Emirates legal
Eswatini rare Nigeria legal United States legal
Ethiopia legal North Korea legal Vietnam legal
Gambia legal Oman legal Western Sahara rare
Ghana rare Pakistan legal Yemen legal
Grenada rare Palestine legal Zambia rare
Capital punishment is often defended on the grounds that society has a moral obligation to
protect the safety and welfare of its citizens. Murderers threaten this safety and welfare. Only by
putting murderers to death can society ensure that convicted killers do not kill again.
There is no credible proof that the death penalty works as a deterrent. In the US, in states
where the death penalty has been abolished, there has been no significant change in the rates for
serious criminal offenses, such as murder.
It is a cruel and unusual punishment, where basic standards of human dignity are
compromised or undermined.
It continues the cycle of violence. Retribution is just another word for revenge—it is essentially
just a form of the flawed thinking that two wrongs can make a right. The pro-death-penalty
argument is that killing people is wrong, and therefore, you should kill people for killing, which
makes no sense. . .
It affects the poorer segments of society and racial minorities disproportionately, in part
because they cannot afford the costs of good legal support. In the USA, although only 13% of the
population is African-American, 50% of death row prisoners are African-American.
It is an old-fashioned and ignorant solution. America’s image would be improved in places
like Europe if the death penalty were abolished. The places where executions happen regularly
include repressive regimes like Iran, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.
The justice system is bound to make mistakes. People who are wrongly imprisoned can be
released from prison and given compensation, but a wrongful execution can never be righted.
The death penalty is not cost-effective. When all the practical and legal costs are taken into
account, it is clear that execution is more expensive than imprisoning for life.
A life spent in prison is a worse punishment than an execution. A prisoner on a life sentence
has many years to endure their punishment, as well as experience remorse and reflect on his or
her crimes.
There are strong religious arguments against the death penalty. Life is sacred and God-
given. Divine judgment comes in the afterlife.
The phrase 'capital punishment' comes from the Latin word for the head. A 'corporal'
punishment, such as flogging, takes its name from the Latin word for the body. In 2008, there
was a growing reluctance among those countries that do retain the death penalty to use it in
practice.
The odds of receiving a death sentence are nearly four times higher if the defendant is
black than if he or she is white. A defendant's likelihood of receiving the death
penalty correlates with the victim's race. Of people currently on death row, 82% were
convicted in cases involving white victims.