Reasons
This crime, which means killing another person on purpose, is one of the most common reasons people receive the death penalty.
Answer:First Degree Murder
This method of capital punishment is currently the most commonly used in the United States.
Answer: Lethal Injections
An American serial killed who raped, tortured, and killed his 30 + victims, hiding them underneath the floorboards of his house.
Answer: John Wayne Gacy
The biggest main land state in the U.S that is known for using capital punishment the most.
Answer:Texas
This country is one of the few Western democracies that still allows capital punishment, though its use varies by state and has been abolished in many of them.
United States
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 caused this crime to be eligible to be considered for the death penalty.
Answer: War Crimes
A specialized device that uses a high voltage to kill.
Answer: Electrical chair
An American serial killer who sexually assaulted and killed his victims, being executed on January 24th, 1989.
Answer: Ted Bundy
The state that allows capital punishment also has the most wild fires in the U.S.
Answer: California
This country carries out more executions than any other in the world and permits capital punishment for a wide range of crimes. This country is also notorious for its controversial “One-Child Policy.”
China
The crime of betraying one’s country or attempting to overthrow the government is known as the rarest reason for the death penalty.
Answer:Treason
The suffocation of someone due to their own body weight and it was last used by Delaware in the year 1996.
Answer: Hanging
The Patron Saint of France who died in the 1440’s for heresy and was burned at the stake.
Answer:Joan af Arc
This Midwestern state abolished the death penalty in 1853, becoming the first U.S. state to permanently eliminate capital punishment. Also it is known as the cheese state.
Answer : Wisconsin
This country abolished capital punishment for murder in 1965 and fully ended it for all crimes in 1988 and is a part of the United Kingdom.
England
This crime is the act of spying to secretly acquire vital, and confidential information, often for a government or corporation.
Answer:Espionage
This execution method often included one shooter with a blank round, so no member of the squad could be certain they fired the fatal shot.
Answer: Firing Squad
A female American serial killer that killed 7 men, and claimed that the men she killed sexually assaulted her, but later abandoned that defense.
Answer: Aileen Wuornos
The first official “tornado warning” was issued in the state in 1948 also uses capital punishment.
Answer: Oklahoma
This highly secretive country allows capital punishment and is known for carrying out executions for political crimes as well as other offenses.
North Korea
Being identified with this will get you killed from 1692 to 1693, the victims of these punishments were mainly women.
Answer:Witchery
This brutal medieval punishment involved being tied to a wooden frame or platform and stretched apart sometimes by ropes or horses as a form of execution or torture.
Answer: Drawing and Quartering
A 14-year-old African American boy who was wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in South Carolina in 1944.
Answer: George Stinney Jr.
The state that has the death penalty law implemented with the lowest death penalty rate in the U.S.
Kansas
This East Asian country retains capital punishment, carrying out executions by hanging, often with little public notice, despite being a developed democracy with a low crime rate.
Japan