In today’s society people snap when criminals receive the death penalty proclaiming that we are
violating the 8th amendment, which indicates cruel and unusual punishment, however, in the 18th
century under the “Babylonian law, King Hammurabi” (Jean Kellaway), introduced the world to
execution. Which, now a days we view this as torture; before the states had hangings, electric
chairs, firing squads, gas chambers and lethal injection, human being were gruesomely being
tortured in unbelievable ways…
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