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So you did it. You committed the ultimate crime. A capital offense, premeditated mass murder--there’s no going back now. Maybe with a little foresight you would’ve chosen a lesser crime, or you would’ve tried a little harder to not get caught. You’re on death row, and there seems to be no way out. However, there are a few ways to... more »
The term "prisoner" has many different connotations. A prisoner can be someone who has been kidnapped, someone who has been captured during a war or someone who is being held captive due to their political beliefs. In the context of this discussion, however, a prisoner will be defined as a person who has been remanded to a... more »
According to federal records, 37 percent of appeals of a capital punishment verdict are successful. This means that many people can actually be saved if lawyers act within a reasonable amount of time and file the appropriate papers. An appeal can be successful because it proves the innocence of the convict or simply because it shows... more »
Capital punishment is the execution of a convicted criminal for capital offenses such as murder, kidnapping and treason. The offenses punishable by the death penalty vary from state to state, with 38 states officially sanctioning the death penalty. The federal government also has its own list of crimes eligible for capital punishment.... more »
Protesting is your constitutional right. If you are against capital punishment, you can certainly make your views know a variety of ways: in person, in writing or on the phone. As long as you keep the protest civil and comply with the law, officials will be open to hearing what you have to say. more »
The history of capital punishment in the United States dates as far back as the 1600s in Virginia. Since that time, debates over the death penalty... more »
Whether you're for or against capital punishment, understanding the statistics can help you come to grips with this issue. Fortunately, these... more »
Capital punishment or the death penalty, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences.
The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). Hence, a capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head.
Capital punishment has been practiced in virtually every society, and thus can be considered to be a cultural universal or close to it, excluding those with state religious proscriptions against it. It is a matter of active controversy in various countries and states, and positions can vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. In the EU member states, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment.
Today, most countries are considered by Amnesty International as abolitionists, which allowed a vote on a nonbinding resolution to the UN to promote the abolition of the death penalty. But more than 60% of the worldwide population live in countries where executions take place insofar as the four most populous countries in the world (the Peoples Republic of China, India, United States and Indonesia) apply the death penalty and are unlikely to abolish it at any time soon.
History
Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies—both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent. In most places that practice capital punishment it is reserved for murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice. In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest and sodomy, carry the death penalty, as do religious crimes such as apostasy in Islamic nations (the formal renunciation of the State religion). In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offense. In China, human trafficking and serious cases of co read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital+punishment
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