Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and roughly 35 convicts are executed annually . The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United States today, it is cruel, sadistic, appalling, and final. Criminals on death row face several forms of execution the most common is lethal injection. However, some states such as Texas and South Carolinia use the electric chair and firing arms. Capital punishment is unjust and unethical, …showed first 75 words of 652 total…

…showed last 75 words of 652 total…undocumented. Capital punishment is brutal, inhumane, degrading, and irrevocable. It is an unfair and discriminatory method of criminal punishment. Capital punishment assures the execution of some innocent people. As a solution for crime, capital punishmentit has no purpose and no effect. Capital punishment is unfair and unethical, and should be prohibited. Radelet, Michael (May 10, 1995). Post-Furman Botched Executions, radelet@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu "Excerpts from Ryan's Speech," Chicago Tribune, June 12, 2003, at 16 (announcing blanket clemencies in Illinois)