The death penalty, or capital punishment which ever term you wish to use came into effect

around the late 1960's, since then there are thirty-eight states with the death penalty; Georgia

included, and twelve states without. Since the enactment of the death penalty in 1976 until

today there has been a total of eight hundred and four people put to death, and about 4,000

intimates waiting to be executed. There are a lot of mixed emotions when it comes to the death

penalty. Some people believe that the carrying out of the death penalty goes against a persons

eighth and fourteenth amendment rights, and others believe that it will help deter crime.

Many feel that the death penalty is such a cruel way to punish a person that they would rather

them spend life in prison without parole. just like everything else putting someone to death cost

a lot of money and it has to go threw a process. To give a person a death sentence there has to

be a least 28 procedures necessary in making the decision. 1. The crime must be one listed as a

capital crime in the penal codes. 2. A suspect must be identified and arrested. 3. Beginning

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