Death Penalty

• A death penalty is when someone is sentenced to death for committing a crime. It is used as a form of punishment.
• Electric Chair


  You are strapped into a special chair which kills you by a powerful electric current.

  you are strapped to the chair with metal straps and a wet sponge is placed on the head to aid conductivity. Electrodes are placed on the head and leg for a closed circuit.
• Gas Chamber


  Prior the execution, the executioner enters the chamber and places potassium cyanide (KCN) pellets into a small compartment under the chair. Then when the prisoner is secured the door is sealed and the executioner pours sulphuric acid (H2SO4) through a tube which leads to a holding compartment in the chair.

  After a level is thrown by the executioner and the acid mixes with the cyanide generating lethal hydrogen cyanide (HCN) gas.
• Firing Squad


  The inmate is blindfold and restrained. A group of men then fire a single bullet in to there heart.
• Lethal Injection


  The prisoner is secured then two IV tube are inserted into their arms: a saline solution is fed through the tube . Theses tubes go through the wall into another room, where the execution will be carried out.

  The drugs can be delivered by a machine, but due to fear of mechanical failure, most US states manually inject the drugs.
• Death Penalty Crimes - Crimes Against Property

  • Robbery
• Death Penalty Crimes - Crimes Against Public Security

  • Arson
  • Flooding
  • Bombing
• Death Penalty Crimes - Economic Crimes

  • Counterfeit Medicine
  • Smuggling Nuclear Weapons
• Death Penalty Crimes - Crimes Against A Person

  • Intentional Homicide
  • Intentional Assault
  • Rape
  • Kidnapping
• Arguments For The Death Penalty - Justice for families

  • Families of the victims can finally feel justice has been served and experience closure upon the execution of the offender.
  • This is because they feel like the offender should lose their life for taking the life of their loved one.
• Arguments For the Death Penalty - Just Punishment

  • In a 2014 poll, the most popular reason why people supported the death was because they believe they deserve it as they took a life and that the punishment fits the crime.
• Arguments For the Death Penalty - Prevention of re-offending

  • It is often argued that states with high murder rates would have even higher rates if they did not use the death penalty.
  • Some people feel that prison still can cause more crimes in the future,To assure that they cannot commit another crime, they are executed.
• Arguments Against The Death Penalty - Deference

  • Murder rates inside states with the death penalty are still higher than states without. This means it is not deferring them.
• Arguments Against The Death Penalty - Risk of Innocence

  • Since 1976, 185 people on death row have been found innocence in the US. This means they were taken off because they were innocence.
  • For every 8 people executed, one person on death row was innocent.
• Arguments Against The Death penalty - Race

  • Black People are more likely to get the death penalty over White people and this is disproportional to the population.
• Arguments Against The Death Penalty - Cost

  • Over the last 32%, it cost California taxpayers $4 billion. California is responsible for 22% of all the death row inmates. With 13 executions in 32 years.
  • The reason it is so expensive is because death row inmate have single cells and extra legal support, with two trails.