Death Penalty and Related Ethical Issues GapFill

 FinancialProportionalCorporalCapital punishment is another term for the death penalty. This is a form of punishment in which the State takes the away the life of an individual who has been convicted of a specific crime. This is a serious punishment which is usually reserved for truly heinous crimes, such as  perjurypetty theftkidnapmurder. It is currently not a practice which is used as a method of punishment in the  USUKDemocratic Republic of the CongoState of Israel; however, it has been previously used in this country as a method of punishment for serious crimes such as murder. It is currently  illegallegaldemonstratedencouraged in the United Kingdom – and has been since 1998. In the countries in which it is used, there are a variety of different methods of execution. For example, the favoured option in the American states which still have the death penalty is the method of death by  decapitationfiring squadgassinglethal injection, which is the administering of a cocktail of drugs designed to sedate the prisoner, paralyse their limbs and finally stop the heart. This is considered by some to be the most humane method of administering the death penalty. The other option for the death penalty in the US is death by  gassingradioactive chairelectric chairdecapitation, which kills by strapping the individual to a chair and allowing electric currents to be administered, which will kill the inmate. This is considered to be more painful than the lethal injection and therefore, generally, those facing the death penalty will choose to be killed by lethal injection. Countries other than the US, such as the UAE, are known to use other methods – including stoning, which is the throwing of stones at an individual until death. It has religious links to some faiths, such as  JudaismBuddhismIslamChristianity in which the some of the Hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad appear to prescribe the use of stoning for certain situations such as adultery. There is a large debate regarding whether or not the death penalty can be considered to be  uprightmoralusefuleffective as many argue that the risk of the conviction and killing of the  guiltysadinnocentchallenged is too high. Other issues include how  cleverdifficultefficienthumane the death penalty is; for example, the lethal injection is known to occasionally not work as intended, causing a huge amount of pain and suffering to the inmate who is being injected.