Should Death Penalty Be Allowed In The United States?

There are currently 31 states with the death penalty. The states are Alabama, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota, California, Montana, Tennessee, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Georgia, New hampshire, Virginia, Idaho, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Ohio, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, And Oregon. All of these states have lethal injection. Three have hangings. Eigth have electrocution. Three have lethal gas. Two have firing squad. There are eighteen states without the death penalty. The states are Alaska, Michigan, Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Hawaii, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Iowa, North Dakota, Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland Massachusetts.Maryland was the most recent to abolish the death penalty in the year 2013.

States are getting out of hand. The state of Oklahoma will start using nitrogen gas to execute death row, officials said, an unprecedented response to the inability of states nation wide to obtain lethal injection drugs. Oklahoma’s move is the latest in a series of dramatic efforts. Some officials have made to carrying out death sentences. Oklahoma isn't the only state who has decided to practice death penalty. Electrocution is in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Utah does firing squad. In 2009, New Mexico voted to abolish the death penalty. Colorado abolished the death penalty in 1897 but reinstated it in 1901. In 2009, the Colorado House of Representatives passed the death penalty abolished bill. A pro of having the power to use the death penalty is that it kills people for there bad crimes. A con of having the power to apply the death penalty is the person who made the crime just dies and doesn't have to think about what they did and how the families of the victims feel. States are losing the lethal injection drug because there's little supply of it. Personally I think individual states should not have the power because the criminal should think about what they have done. Also, states have too much power in the first place either all states should have them or don't have them at

There are currently 31 states with the death penalty. The states are Alabama, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota, California, Montana, Tennessee, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Georgia, New hampshire, Virginia, Idaho, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Ohio, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, And Oregon. All of these states have lethal injection. Three have hangings. Eigth have electrocution. Three have lethal gas. Two have firing squad. There are eighteen states without the death penalty. The states are Alaska, Michigan, Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Hawaii, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Iowa, North Dakota, Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland Massachusetts.Maryland was the most recent to abolish the death penalty in the year 2013.

The constitution says nothing pertaining to capital punishment, thus the supreme court left the decision up to individual states to decide what to do with their residents. Some states, such as Michigan, do not partake in the death penalty. Eighteen states have completely outlawed the act, and many more have not executed a person in over a decade.

Some people believe that the death penalty should be abolished and some believe that it should be used more frequently. The use of the death penalty as punishment varies from state to state. Capital punishment is established in thirty-one states; however, nineteen of the fifty states do not

have laws for capital punishment. However, upon review of these punishments it is easy to see why they should be unconstitutional. These punishments harm the innocent, waste money, and are simply barbaric. When executioners can perform state sanctioned executions without batting an eye there is a problem. Executions simply do not work and cause unnecessary agony. Instead of punishments states should try to focus on

Since 2012, the use of lethal injection has been legal in 31 states, to contaminate a convict. 1,423 people innocent and guilty have died from the death penalty since 1972. I strongly believe that the death penalty is unconstitutional being that it violates the Eighth Amendment, irreversible, and executes a large amount of hypocrisy.

In the United States, there are around 40 to 50 executions per year, Texas with 10 or more prisoners put to death each year. Texas has the highest rate of deaths out of all the other states with the death penalty. Texas currently has three prisoners put to death already. The United States has currently 31 states with the death penalty; the remaining states abolished it. The death penalty should be abolished because of the cost, it shortens punishment for the person who did the crime,and it puts innocent lives at risk.

The death penalty is the sentence of execution for murder and other capital crimes. Which are punishable by death? The death penalty is used only in 38 states (www.deathpenalty.org). The state of California is home to the nation's

In 1976 a law was passed by the state of Missouri and 25 other states. This was called the Death Penalty. Since then we have put 62 total people to death using the Death Penalty. Some states have only used this penalty 1 or 2 times, others states like Missouri, Texas, and Virginia, have used this penalty more than 5 times. Texas is even up to 11 since its legalization. The Death Penalty should not be allowed because, it violates the 8th amendment, what if someone gets falsely accused, and it violates a physician's oath to protect.

Capital punishment is punishment by death. As of now, 32 out of the 50 states use the death penalty. States such as; Arizona, Colorado, Alabama, Texas and South Dakota. A few of the many methods include; lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber and hanging. The most used method is the lethal injection, which is a painless way to stop the heart of the criminal.

The death penalty is just one of many faults in the justice system. It is legal in 31 states such as Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. It is illegal in 19 other states such as Alaska, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and D.C. The biggest percentage of the inmates facing death row are in the south, the greatest number found in Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. There are both goods and bads about this form of punishment, some cons about the death penalty is that it gives out the wrong idea, why kill someone to show everyone else that taking a life is the wrong thing to do. It is not going to bring the victim back to life and the criminal’s family is going to be

The death penalty has been argued about for years. Only 19 states (including district of Columbia) do not have the death penalty. Because of the cost of death vs. life in prison, irrevocable mistakes, and morality, the death penalty should definitely be discontinued.

I agree with the idea of less states following through with the death penalty because I find it inhumane and truly a violation of the people's eighth amendment which is against cruel and unusual punishment.

The issue of the death penalty has been of great concern and debate for a number of years now. Prior to 1976, the death penalty was banned in the United States. In 1976, though, the ban was lifted, and many states adopted the death penalty in their constitutions. Currently, there are 38 states that use the death penalty, and only 12 states that do not. The states that have the death penalty use a number of ways to go about executing the defendant. Thirty-two states use lethal injection, 10 use electrocution, 6 use the gas chamber, 2 use hanging, and 2 states use a firing squad (Death Penalty Information Center, 1997). The 12 states that do not have the death penalty are Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,