1. Capital Punishment
The old adage tells us that a person may steal from a thief, that a person can wrong those that has wrong him or her, but do we, as a society, have the right to decide on whether a person lives or dies? ... The condemned person was to be strapped into a chair, electrodes were placed on his head, spine and leg and a massive dose of electric current was applied for about 20 seconds. The invention was meant to kill a person quickly and painlessly and it became the standard method of execution in France until capital punishment The name of his invention was the electric chair. ... The electri...
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