Capital Punishment

"Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law". Almost every culture through out history has relied on the death penalty and justified it as necessary tool to maintain order. The United States is the only Western industrialized nation where executions still take place. The USA is one of the 90 countries with the death penalty. The death penalty is imposed in 38 states and for certain federal crimes. There is a big controversy over capital punishment whether or not it works, or if it is morally right. People have been using "an eye for an eye,…