METHOD OF HANGING

The day before the criminal/inmate is to be hung he/she must be weighed. Rehearsal is done usually be using a sandbag of the same weight as the prisoner. This practice is to determine the length of the "drop" that is necessary to ensure a quick death for the criminal/inmate. If the length of the rope is too short for the criminals/inmates weight then the strangulation can take as long as 45 minutes to complete. If the rope is too long then the inmate can be decapitated. The rope that is used for the execution must be boiled and stretched to eliminate spring or coiling. The knot that creates the noose must be lubricated with wax or oil to ensure a smooth sliding action.

METHOD OF EXECUTION: HANGING

Hanging was one of the earliest method of execution in the United States. Until the late 1800's it was the primary method of execution. In present time hanging is only used in two states in the United States, Delware and Washington. These two states also offer alternative methods to execute but they still rely on this very old method. The last known legal hanging to take place was January 25, 1996 in Delaware.

Gas chemicals

Zyklon B was one of the first biological execution methods and one of the most famous chemicals used for killing mass amounts of people. This named was created for a cyanide-based pesticide which became popular and brought to attention during the nazi-germany rain in Germany. Zyklon B was used during the holocaust in Hitlers concentration camps for gas chambers. These chambers were often massive and could hold hundreds of people at a time. Zyklon B consists of Hydrogen Cyanide and also has a warning odor.

THE HISTORY ON THE GAS CHAMBER

The gas chamber was introduced into the United States in the 1920's for the execution of condemned prisoners. The gas chamber consists of a sealed chamber in which a posion gas is injected into the sealed room by a filtered drain system. This method became famous when it was largely used in the Holocaust, when Nazi-Germany built large-scale gas chambers to commit mass execution of jews.

Method of Lethal injection

This method of execution is done by putting a criminal to sleep with a fatal dose of drugs, this drug is usually causes immediate death. The main purpose of this method is for Capital Punishment but in a more humane sense it would be considered as euthanasia or suicide. This method kills the prisoner by first putting him/her to sleep, then stop the persons breathing, then stopping the heart of the persons causing instant death. Lethal injection, which is considered more humane than hanging, electrocution, firing squad, and gas, has become the most common form of execution in the United States. In the Year of 2005, every American execution was conducted by Lethal injection.

ELECTROCUTION EXECUTION

Electrocution was invented to seek a more humane way to execute criminals rather than hanging them. The first electric chair was invented in New York in 1888 and executed William Kemmler in 1890. Other states begin to take interest in this new and easy method. In Nebraska it was the sole use of execution until in 2008, the state of Nebraska declared it "cruel and unusual punishment", this claim left the state without any method of execution.

Here is a map of the states and their methods of death penalty.

1. -In this map the states that appear in Red, are states that allow "Electrocution" as their modes of execution.

- the states that are in dark gray do not enforce or allow the death penalty.

-States that are in light gray do not have an electrocution policies but they enforce other methods.

- then the small parts of greens scattered in the map are other methods such as lethal injection, firing squad, hanging, and gas.