The death penalty
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Capital punishment article for teen magazine. The Death Sentence. Sounds like something out of a horror film, doesn't it? You might not know though, in some countries if you commit a serious crime you can be executed for your actions. For example, in the USA just a few states have this law, but the majority of the states stopped using this punishment many years ago. Since 1977, over 1.000 people have been executed in the US; there are currently around 3,500 men and women on death row across the country. Shockingly enough, 124 people in the last 30 years have been found innocent - some while on Death Row, some after they have been wrongfully executed. As you are probably aware, the Death Penalty was abolished in the UK many years ago, 1938. The government had previously tried to abolish it, but this was the first time in the history they were...


