The death punishment, or as it is occasionally being called capital penalty is the hardest penalty that could be obtained when a individual is convicted of a capital offense.
Bringing the death punishment regulation back to life was a part of Gov. George Pataki's election program.
But does having a death punishment regulation really help holding the misdeed rates down? The response is in the statistics: it turns out that the brutal misdeed rates in New York State did not proceed down for the past year since the death punishment regulation was in effect. Another ...