Top things about death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital origins from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). Hence, a capital crime originally was to be punished by the loss of the head.
Most Executions carried out in 2007 by countries
| Country | Number |
|---|---|
| China | 470+ (other sources est. 6,000+)1 |
| Iran | 317+ |
| Saudi Arabia | 143+ |
| Pakistan | 135+ |
| USA | 42 |
| Iraq | 33+ |
via wikipedia
Top 20 Death Penalty States in USA
1. Texas: 405
2. Virginia: 98
3. Oklahoma: 86
4. Missouri: 66
5. Florida: 64
6. North Carolina: 43
7. Georgia: 40
8. Alabama: 38
9. South Carolina: 37
10. Louisiana: 27
11. Arkansas: 27
12. Ohio: 26
13. Arizona: 23
14. Indiana: 19
15. Delaware: 14
16. California: 13
17. Illinois: 12
18. Nevada: 12
19. Mississippi: 8
20. Utah: 6
via justiceflorida
5 Basic questions about the death penalty
- How do you use something that is inevitable anyway as a penalty? It’s not like he was somehow going to keep on living indefinitely even if you didn’t kill him.
- How is it a deterrent if he had to get caught for you to apply it? Do criminals commit crimes expecting to get caught?
- How does death for multiple murders amount to “justice”? The person would have to be killed, revived, then killed again for there to be any kind of parity between the act and the legal consequence.
- Why not just put a guy in a regular prison and give him a regular supply of heroin?
- If death is a “penalty” haven’t most cancer patients been unfairly sentenced?
via notdirtywriter