just wont find there way back into the system like the death penalty for thievery, or adultery and crimes such as those. Also back in the colonial periods people believed in more of a theocracy, which we have separated according to government. I think though that some of these religious views are still associated with the death penalty just so deep some don't realize. I think that today America has tried to be more civilized with there executions or less barbaric even though some states still use executions seen as barbaric such as hangings and firing squads. A definite change was doing away with public executions though some would like to bring it back. I think the reasons for these changes is that America wanted to seem more civilized and when we separated from the system of church and state punishments that went along with that were automatically done away with.It seems that the south has a stronger tie with the death penalty. One reason that I would think is because some parts of the south have strong ties still with church and which goes back to the colonial periods of church and state death penalty practices. Also it has been said that the attitudes of the native white residents of the region can be tied back to slavery, and how the death penalty is just an acceptable form of old black codes and the lynch law (Bedeu 23). This is an example of how history will always just repeat itself even if its not in the same exact form it was in years ago. Texas seems to have the highest number of executions and a high crime rate, its hard to make sense of all of this seeing as how states who don't have the death penalty have lower criminal rates even though the numbers do fluctuate. Its hard to find a correlation between the two.Many people think as I have in the past that the death penalty is racist and that it targets mostly minorities. That really doesn't seem to be the case in most areas. For the most part it just seems tha...
