What is the outcome of capital punishment? Capital punishment, also referred to the death penalty, has been a controversial issue to the society for past decades. It is an ongoing debate that the society argues whether to be abolished or supported. The first established death penalty law was in the Eighteenth Century B.C., which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. Death sentences were carried out by such means as crucifixion, drowning, beating to …showed first 75 words of 760 total…

…showed last 75 words of 760 total…then dying a slow death while breathing in lethal fumes, or anything more unusual then watching people who are paid to shoot at the target on your chest? The Bill of Rights was established to protect the rights of the people and now Americans are taking away these rights from their own countrymen. Also many executions were put to death, but the number of the executions has not declined, but it is rising every year