The possibility of an innocent person being put to death is another factor some people have against the Death Penalty. According to the 1986Stanford University Survey at least 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century.Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices ascrucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading.Today Capital Punishment is typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting. Other harsh, physical forms of this punishment were referred to ascorporal punishment they have all been eliminated in modern times as uncivilized and unnecessary. About 80 nations have abolished the DeathPenalty and an almost equal number of nations retain it. (Most are developing countries.)Most of the US states provide the Death Penalty and 50 to 75 executions occur each year throughout the US. Personally I think thatno state should have this punishment. If I killed someone I would want to die. I think by killing a murder your giving them just what they want.These people are sick and there SCREAMING for you to kill them.In the US, we experience the tragedy of over 20,000 homicides each year. Those on death row are the poorest of poor. They are "people ofcolor": African American (40.7%), Hispanic(5.72%), Native American 1.49 %), and Asian (0.61%). This means 50 % of death row inmates are peopleof color. It is estimated that over one-third of all death row inmates are mentally retarded (with IQ's less the 70), and that nearly have arefunctionally illiterate.More than 3,000 people were executed since 1930, nearly half were people of color. Eighty-five percent of those executed since 1977 werepunished for killing white victims.If we were to talk about a state like ....Ohio where 842 people have been executed since 1884. Of this number, only one white mad was executedfor k...
