Pena de Muerte - (Ingles).

Dead Penalty

Questionnaire

1.- What is the death penalty? A=

2.- What are the most "famous" reasons to penalize someone like that? A=

3.- What are the basic arguments of those against and those in favor of the death penalty? A=

4.- What are the 3 most currently used for the death penalty punishment? A=

5.- Who are the 2 suspected of the creation of the electric chair? A=

Dead Penalty

Is to cause the death of a convicted by the State as punishment for an offense established in legislation; the crimes for which this penalty is applied often called "capital offenses".

For example:

Murder, kidnapping, rebellion against the government, etc.

Arguments in favor and against of the existence of the death penalti.

The most common arguments are 3:

Reason for Justice: This idea is based on the one hand, by religious foundations, whose highest expression is found in the Old Testament, such as the law of retaliation: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for a tooth"; Also noteworthy from religious foundations, that the penalties should be based on the need for atonement. In short, the supreme punishment has always been present in society.

Faith: It is to mention that the death penalty goes against nature and the laws of God's commandments that he instituted.

Humanity: While increasingly, judicial errors are less common, there is risk of convicting the innocent. But also with the aggravating circumstance in the case of the death penalty can not compensate the subject for the mistake.

Most Common Punishments

Due to the seriousness of the acts committed by the prosecuted there is a variety of punishments from the "Painless" to those of Torture.

For example the 3 most used today:

• The Electric Chair: It emerged in the United States at 1888, taking it would be more humane than hanging, This has 2 possible creators, who are Thomas Edison and a unknown dentist.
• The Chemical Injection: The execution is carried out by a single taxable or a platoon.
• The Shotting Execution: This method of implementation is to inject intravenously and continuously a lethal amount of a fast-acting barbiturate in combination with a paralyzing chemical.

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