The issue of capital punishment is a highly emotional issue which has sparked so much debate over the decades. Capital punishment has an extremely lengthy history, but just recently, it has brought about so much disagreement among Americans. In 1975, the United States decided in the case of Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was a cruel and unusual punishment. However, just three years later, the Supreme Court reversed their decision, and left it up to the individual states. Currently, thirty eight states employ the death penalty, and the most common form of execution is by lethal injection, following by the electric chair which is used in a few states. Although many people will continually be divided on the capital punishment controversy for years to come, the numerous facts supporting capital punishment are clear, and at the same time very logical.…
