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The death penalty is a very good way to kill people that have commit a crime but what about the ones that didn't commit a crime .

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41 federal capital offences are punishable via the death penalty

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currently 29 states practice the death penalty.

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The Salem Witch trials were a massive amount of people accused of being witches, and being burned at the stake as an illegal death penalty for a massive amount of people.  The logic of the people was that if the woman burned, she wasn't a witch.  If she survived, she was a witch.

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It is the highest punishment when a serious crime is committed.

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Some (older) things they used for the death penalty include: Hanging, electric chair, burning at the stake (witches, mostly), and in renaissance England, a bed of spikes

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Methods include gas chamber, hanging, electric chair, and lethal injection

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Capital punishment in order to execute criminals who have committed a federal offence (mainly: homicide and genocide)

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In several states, the death penalty isn't used anymore

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The death penalty was made to punish people for crimes.

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People are executed for committing bad crimes.

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Capital punishment. lethal injection, electric chair, crucifixion, shot to death, hanging are the various forms of execution. Can get the death penalty for committing espionage, treason and murder

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Most states have the death penalty

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Use electric chair

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Some states have banned the death penalty. There are different methods used to kill the person facing death.

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are different ways to be executed

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In 1944 a 14 year old named George Stinney Jr. was falsely convicted of the murder of 2 girls. His trial took 10 minutes and he  was sentenced to the electric chair, while the governor of South Carolina  refused to hear his appeal for mercy. Almost 70 years later the U.S finally determined that Stinney Jr. was in fact innocent.

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It was painful. That´s all I know