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Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is punishment by death for committing a crime. To receive the death penalty you must murder, rape, treason, kidnap, or armed robbery. By doing any one of these crimes you are eligible for the death penalty. There have been many arguments about the morality and effectiveness of the death penalty. There are six main types of execution: Hanging, firing quad, garroting, electrocution, lethal injection, gas chamber. The most used way of executing a prisoner is by using the lethal injection, 677 have been executed. The second most widely used way of executing a prisoner is with the electric chair, there have been 150 executions by way of the electric chair. There are 3 other ways to execute a prisoner; they are the gas chamber, the firing squad, an