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Peter Demetrious American Studies: Death Penalty: Alternative Executions Presentation Along with the controversy surrounding capital punishment, are the methods used to enforce it. The search for the most "humane" form of execution has plagued the death penalty along with the effects it has upon modern society. Today there are four forms of execution used in the United States. These are firing squad, the electric chair, the gas chamber and the lethal injection. Back when America founded its independence, and up until the late 19th Century; the most popular form of execution was hanging. It was symbolic in that the condemned would fall through the trap door suspended between "heaven and earth." Hanging was a complicated method and many things went wrong with the executions. Early 19th Century hangings were held in public and often attracted large crowd. Public executions were used mainly as a form of deterring people from committing crimes against the state. Unfortunately,...

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