You are sentenced to death by lethal injection. This is what so many people have heard, and few have lived to tell about. Capital punishment was introduced in the middle ages as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. Capital punishment gave courts the right to enforce one of the most severe punishments known to man, the death penalty. The punishment however can and has been applied incorectly and to innocent offenders. As well, the majority of countries in the world have outlawed the death penalty, proving its ineffectiveness. Also, the cost to…
