| Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, seven states have executed a combined twenty-two juvenile offenders nationwide. |
| The Prime Minister has weighed into the argument, saying she wants to make it clear her party is inherently opposed to capital punishment. |
| Without the respectability that lethal injection provides, capital punishment in the United States would probably cease. |
| No. Do I think that the threat of capital punishment acts as a deterrent to serious crime? |
| One long-term lifer, a woman in fact, told me once that she never met a lifer in her time in prison who didn't approve of capital punishment. |
| Through this we can also see that capital punishment is not necessarily a form of punishment at all. |
