This site is a presentation of capital punishment in America. This site will provide you with information on how the death penalty got started in the United States; important dates that effected how capital punishment is enforced in modern times; key figures that shaped captial punishment; factors that contribute to how captial punishment is used; the effects that capital punishment has on crime and the community; and some photos that illustrate capital punishment.

Capital punishment is the act of killing someone as punishment for a crime.  Sentencing someone to death.

This website does not take a position of pro or against capital punishment.  This website is here to display information covering all aspects of capital punishment; in hope to provide the viewer enough information so that they can come to a well informed conclusion to what they believe.

Other Information Sites

For more information concerning the death penealty visit, http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dp.html