Philosophy 2203-internet Betty Campbell February 28, 2004 Issue Analysis Capital Punishment Since Biblical days, capital punishment has been practiced. Some of the forms of capital punishment have been an eye for an eye, drowning, stoning, hanging, firing squads, electrocution, gas chambers, and more recently lethal injection. The United States and Japan still use capital punishment. Capital punishment is for capital crimes, chiefly murder. There is much controversy from religious sects as well as a growing population of …showed first 75 words of 969 total…

…showed last 75 words of 969 total…out of every 7 people put to death is innocent." Six are guilty and that is six murderers off the streets where we now live. "You do the crime, you do the time." Bibliography: Sources Cited 1.)<Tab/>King James version: "Holy Bible." 2.)<Tab/>King James version: "Holy Bible." 3.)<Tab/>Bonevac, Daniel." The New Abolitionists."2002." 4.)<Tab/>Jacoby, Jeff. "The Boston Globe." 1999