Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on people convicted of a crime. Today, in modern law, the death penalty is corporal punishment in its most severe form. It is irrevocable: it ends the existence of those punished, instead of temporarily imprisoning them. Few states have both capital punishment and or life imprisonment. Capital punishment is the only corporal punishment applied to adults. The usual alternative to the death penalty …showed first 75 words of 570 total…

…showed last 75 words of 570 total…there is a chance that they will commit some sort of crime again knowing the worse is being in solitude fed by the government and our taxes. If some penalty was applied to them that can bring in fear, it guarantees that they will never commit any crimes again. It is only cruel and unusual punishment to the innocent ones who have to deal with the habitual criminals who commit crime over and over again.