Lethal Injection Report For thousands of years, many governments have punished people convicted of certain crimes by putting them to death. The death penalty is considered by many to be the ultimate form of punishment for those who have committed the most shocking crimes. Methods of execution have changed along with time periods. The idea of someone being put to death, no matter how, is not pleasant. The form by which prisoners are being executed …showed first 75 words of 1397 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1397 total…capital punishment. However, about 20 of these countries have not performed an execution in the last 10 years or more. Only a handful of these countries have begun to use lethal injection as an execution method. References 1.The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation, 1998. "Lethal Injection." 2.Bonsor, Kevin. "How Lethal Injection Works." www.howstuffworks.com. April 2001. 3.Michigan State University Comm. Tech Lab and Death Penalty Information Center. "Death Penalty." www.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/c/about/stages/stages.htm. 2000-2002.