Persuasive Essay About Death Penalty

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The death penalty is something very huge in the United States some may ask what the death penalty is, and some already may know. The death penalty is when someone commits a crime so cruel that the government has no other option but to put the criminal to sleep aka send him to death row. They don 't just shoot the people who have committed the crimes they inject them with a lethal injection. But before then, they have death row and they have some time to live before being injected with the lethal injection. Many people think this punishment is really harsh and shouldn’t be given even though the people have committed some pretty hateful crimes. There are currently 31 states with the death penalty being active with the remaining 19 states having abolished the law. It isn 't easy getting the death penalty in the United States, so if someone where to get this death penalty then this means they have done a crime like no other and it had to have shocked and frightened many people. Most of the people who are receiving the death penalty are the ones who are killing mass groups of people, hate crimes, racial crimes and any other crime that will make headline news. According to “factslides.com” 1 out of every 25 people who are sentenced to …show more content…

The death penalty in the state of Indiana has been around for a long time since the 1800’s. Even though they weren 't doing lethal injection in the 1800’s they were still doing death penalties. The way that they did this was to hang them and even before they got to hang the person who committed the crime a mob would get to them before they could be strangled/hanged in some cases. It took the state of Indiana a while to change the death penalty and the ways of execution but they have went from hanging, to lethal injection and sometimes even electrocution which came around the

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