What is the official definition of "Capital punishment"?
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Capital Punishment: (N) Legal Killing, or Execution. There's no better definition than this.
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Lethal injection is uniquely American. \nYes, it is an unusual punishment for the non-Americans.  \n\nDeath penalty is irrevocable. It is a direct violation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yes, lethal injection is a cruel punishment like any other capital punishment.\n\nMore than half the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law and practice. \n\n86 countries for all crimes, \n11 countries for ordinary crimes, \n25 countries in practice.\n\nUSA, -the world role model for human rights-, is among the countries such as Zimbabwe, Qatar, Iraq, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Congo, Chad, Sudan, Iran, Tanzania, Comoros, North Korea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Ghana, China … which are just ‘retain’ the death penalty for 'ordinary crimes'. \n\nOn the other hand, it looks like lethal injection is currently the favoured method of execution in USA. The statistics for the period of 1976-2002 are;\n\nLethal injection - 618 executions \nElectrocution - 150 executions \nGas chamber - 11 executions\nHanging - 3 executions.\nFiring Squad - 2 executions. \n\nLethal injection is considered to be more humane than others. \n\nActually, lethal injection is just humane for the ‘witnesses’ not ‘the person being executed’.No matter how you dress it up, you are still killing a human being.\n\nIt is known that in about 40 % of the cases where lethal injection has been used, there have been misuses and it has taken as long as 45 minutes for the condemned to die. \n\nIf the main consideration is truly to be ‘humane’ to ‘the person being executed’, why not the ‘firing squad’ ? Such a death is said to be faster and less painful than lethal injection.
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First degree murder is a charge that usually involves the following elements in a murder: premeditation, deliberateness and malice. Different jurisdictions will call them different things.\n\nCapital murder is a first degree murder charge for which the prosecution has decided to seek the death penalty as a possible punishment.
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Mercifull Killing. When a guy who is seriously ill and can't be treated any further. and he/she has to live rest of its life in that condition, then this process is done. it is to stop the suffering of the patient. It was first adopted by Sweden.
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I think that if the death penalty is warranted, than it doesn't matter how the peson dies.  The whole idea that lethal injection is "inhumane" is irrelevant.  And hypocritical.  You're killing someone, but you don't want to hurt them???  Absurd.  Lethal injection is fine, but too expensive.  Bullets are cheap, I think a single gunshot to the brain is the best way to carry out a death penalty sentence.
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I must say that it has bad press, particularly in association with the French Revolution. But in the cold light of day, if you are going to have capital punishment (which I disagree with), then it really is the best means of doing it.\n\n1. It is instantaneous, unlike other forms of killing, hanging being the worst\n\n2. It is cost-effective, requiring little infra-structure and personnel to make it happen\n\n3. It has an almost 0 failure rate\n\nYes, if capital punishment it must be then let the guillotine come back
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Might be helpful to include the country next time , this is all US information..... Here is some research with links " Get to work and stop reading questions" LOL\n\n\n1) Check out their "History of the Death Penalty "section\n2) United States Courts on the death penalty\n3)Victims and the death penalty\n4)Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading. Today capital punishment is typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting.\n5)History of the death penalty ---Plus a chart chronicles the United State's use of the death penalty over the past four centuries.
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I still think that a firing squad is the most humane.  It's quick, almost instantaneous, and none of the men on the squad knows who shot a real bullet or who shot a blank.  In lethal injection, the condemned convulse (just like in electrocution).  Beheading might be more accurate (the firing squad could all miss) but seems to be more of a show for the public (see French Revolution or Saudia Arabia) as a deterent.  Hanging is even less accurate (see Thrice Hung John of English lore).  I must admit though, I'm against capital punishment because of economic reasons.  The extra costs of court appeals, lethal injections (or electrocutions) upon taxpayers is much more than most people realize.
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Your best bet is to outline the reasons that Capital Punishment is unjust. I would start with\n- inequities in the criminal justice system that lead to poor representation in the courtroom\n- racial biases that lead to biased juries and sentencing\n- police tactics that result in bad convictions \n- MOST IMPORTANT: the possibility of convicting those who are innocent (in Illinois, 13 people were released from death row when it was proved they were innocent)\n\nLook at Texas -- it is a picture perfect example of everything that is wrong with the Capital Punishment system.
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Life.. or better yet.. the death penalty (for Murder 1)
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killing is not wrong\n\nmurder is wrong\n\nDeath Penalty is an option\n\nexecuting murders for their crimes is both retribution, a deterrent, and makes sure (at least) that that person won't be killing on the streets again.\n\nIf some folks say that it's not a deterrent, then fine, - it's retribution, I'm comfortable with that.
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Each State has its own guidelines for capital punishment.\n\nBut for the Federal guidelines- there are many- some of which are not murder - although most of them are circumstances that require a death result (such as kidnapping where a death results; attack on an airline where a death results) but there are some like treason, or related to drug kingpins, etc.\n\nHere is a link- it's pretty dense- but it's all there:\n\nhttp://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL30962.pdf
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Capital Murder or First Degree Murder but depends on the state in the U.S.
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I have no objection to capitol punishment.  I agree that if the criminal is truly guilty, beyond a shadow of doubt, then by all means, eliminate him from society in the most expeditious manner available!\n\nUnfortunately, the modern US legal system isn't perfect.  There have been several cases in the past where a person convicted of a crime and sentenced to death has later been proved innocent of that crime.  \n\nWould you want to be the one who pushes the button on an innocent man?
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I fully support capital punishment. The only real problem with capital punishment is how long it takes from conviction and sentencing to execution. Upon conviction and imposition of the death sentence, there should be an immediate and thourough appeal review. If that review also concurrs with the conviction and sentence then sentence should be carried out expeditiously. In my opinion the time between sentence and exectution should be less than 30 days.\n\nAll punishments should be swift and sure. Then they really WILL act as deterrents. Even without the deterrent factor, removing a murderer from society will always be a wortwhile act.\n\nWhile we are at it we should return capital punishment to desertion and treason.
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It does sound awful, if you understand what goes on in that persons body when they're injected. Especially if they aren't sedated properly. Ah man, capital punishment really makes me sad, I'm not saying I'm against it, but it's just an awful situation it seems like.
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Death penalty. Chi ching!\n\n(joke)