Death Penalty
The death penalty is a very controversial topic. Also known as capital punishment which is when someone that has legally been convicted of capital crime. Which is when someone is convicted of a dangerous crime and is punished with execution. Some states have removed the death penalty, while in others it has been in high use for many different defendants. Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia are a few states where it is legal. Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine and Maryland are some of the locations which it is not. A total of 1491 convicts have been executed in the United States since 1976. Since the lethal method had been created in 1982, forty-six people would be put to execution yearly. Half of the individuals that were executed were Caucasian. And one third of the people were black. While a large percentage of the gender of people that were being executed were males. On a website that I was reading it stated that “Texas leads the nation in executions, havi