The death penalty is a very controversial and controversial subject. The death penalty is completely obsolete in Western English-speaking countries; the only exception being the United States of America. The death penalty is only used in cases of treason and murder. 1 Proponents of the death penalty believe that putting a murderer to death lets the family of the murdered person know that justice has been served. Opposition to the death penalty believes that the sentence is too “final”: it offers no possibility of rehabilitation. However, both parties recognize the need for change in the justice system regarding capital punishment. The common problem is finding a punishment severe enough to deter crime while still providing a chance for rehabilitation. The standard form of execution is the use of lethal injection, in which the condemned person is strapped to a chair and injected with sodium thiopental to cause loss of consciousness, pancuronium bromide to cause paralysis, and chloride of potassium to stop the heart. Texas is the most liberal state in its use of the death penalty, with 34% of the national total since 1976. The death penalty has been a part of civilization for the entire existence of man, since the Ancient Greece and Egypt until today. On November 1, 1987, Frederick Romano discovered that his sister had been beaten, tortured, mutilated and killed in her apartment. The killer, Steven Oken, also killed two other women: Patricia Hirt and Lori Ward. Romano waited until 2002 to see his sister's killer die and said, “It's not about moving on. There will never be closure. It's about seeing justice done, not only for my sister, but also for Lori and Patricia. Just days before Oken's execution, Attorney General M...... middle of paper ...... the death penalty had the highest number of violent crimes. Many opponents of the death penalty believe that the death penalty violates the basic human right preventing cruel and unusual punishment under the Constitution. Proponents of the death penalty believe that the punishment should fit the crime, some even going so far as to say that the perpetrator of the crime should be killed in the same way he killed his victims. Radicalism is rife on both sides of this debate. The death penalty remains a very controversial and widely criticized subject. Both camps vehemently debate, from many different angles, the constitutionality, morality, and justice of the death penalty; but both sides know that there must be some form of punishment for violent criminals who commit murder. The conflict arises with the question: "what punishment is just for a convicted murderer?" ??”