Capital Punishment should be Abolished         Evidence suggests that the death penalty does not deter people from committing crimes. It is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment and there have been instances where innocent people were sentenced to death and later found to be innocent.         The most common methods of execution are hanging and shooting. Countries like the U.S. use electrocution, gas chambers and lethal injections to dispose of the convicted. Some countries, …showed first 75 words of 1081 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1081 total…reintroducing capital punishment. The fact that there is no evidence to support the view that it deters criminals, that it is irreversible and an inhumane punishment suggests that capital punishment should be abolished worldwide. REFERENCES 1)'Simply Living' Vol.4 No.4 1989, 'The Green Pages:Amnesty International, Campaign to abolish the death penalty' 2)Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica center, Instant Research service, 'The debate over capital punishment', 'Arguments for abolition of death penalty' 3)'Time', January 24, 1983, 'An Eye for an Eye'