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Capital punishment is defined as legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history, people have been put to death for many forms of wrongdoing, which includes crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning, and beheading. Nowadays, the capital punishment is accomplished by lethal injections, electrocution, hanging, and shooting. The practice of capital punishment had been used for centuries and it is retained in United States since the Supreme Court reestablished it in 1977. Whether …

…and also because of errors committed during the trial. If these people are executed before they are proven not guilty, that means their rights to live have been violated. They can be live longer if they are not condemned to death, if they are only put for some years in prison. Therefore until the abolishment of capital punishment is enacted, many innocent people will be put to death for crimes that they did not committed.