Capital Punishment In America

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The methods America has used to execute its criminals have changed over the years From burning, to drawing and quartering to hanging Criminals have been axed Crucified, buried alive, pressed with weights Stoned, impaled, starved, decapitated, and gibbeted Gibbeting is the hanging of the condemned man by chains to rot Death usually takes weeks to occur. (Lench Mob) Today, the breakdown of execution methods looks like this: 17 states use lethal injection The electric chair is employed in 15 states Lethal Gas is the choice in 7 states, 3 state still hang their condemned And 2 states execute prisoners by firing squad. (Lench Mob) As of 1987, Florida led the nation with 277 inmates awaiting death Texas was second with 257 And California was third with 219 The youngest person facing death was 16 years old. (Lench Mob) In the United States, public execution occasionally led to violence among the crowd And senseless tragedy for a few unfortunate witnesses. (Lench Mob) The last public execution in America was on August 14th 1946 Nearly 20,000 people showed up to watch the hanging death of Rainey Bethea A black man accused of raping a white woman "Lets only eliminate on the grounds of the solace of bumpin' business and all of that, and everybody had a good time And the mob was just totally unruly" Mob was just totally unruly Mob was just totally unruly