Basically the definition for the 'Death Penalty' is when a person is killed for committing a very serious crime. This, the ending of life, is the punishment the killer is sent to receive. An execution, like physical forms of torture, involves a deliberate assault on a prisoner. The only difference is that the assault is continued until a person is killed.
             Even so-called "humane" methods like lethal injections lead to difficulties. Medical professionals around the world are forbidden from participating in executions, so needles and intravenous lines are inserted into prisoners by unqualified staff. Where there have been problems finding a suitable vein, orderlies have performed crude "cut-downs" into a prisoner's arm. Tubing has been known to spring leaks and spray the executioner with the poisons. The application of electric current and cyanide gas, tightening a rope around or dropping a blade upon the neck are not designed to be pain-free. Nor is death automatically immediate. Each method has caused its share of botched executions, where the prisoner dies in prolonged suffering. Murder is seen by some to justify the death penalty, a life for a life. This essay will consider both views.
             The death penalty is also known as capital punishment, it is the punishment of death for committing a crime. Many countries still use the Death Penalty but few now. The Death Penalty is still active in America and other states within the U.S., however the death penalty, outlawed (forbidden) in most of Europe, Canada, Australia. In the year 2000, popular support for the death penalty (66%) reached its lowest point in twenty years, according to a recent Gallup poll. Making the facts straight about what the people really want. The legal system is administered by a vast number of different people in different circumstances and may produce inequalities and errors. The current views on the death penalty are the views that speak out. Except that ...