The death penalty or capital punishment is legal infliction of death for violating criminal law. Throughout history the methods used for this have included crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading. The main methods used today are lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting. Out of the 37 states who use the death penalty Texas has had the most executions of any state with 310 executions.

Countries throughout the world are split on using capital punishment. Close to 90 countries have abolished the death penalty and about as many still retain it. Most of the countries who use it are developing countries. Most industrialized countries favor sentencing criminals to a l

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