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 changes. In America and other countries, lethal injection is becoming the most commonly used form of capital punishment. More than 3,700 men and women were serving death sentences in American prisons, according to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2001. Many of these people have been on death row for decades. A great number of these executions were carried out by lethal injection.…
