Capital punishment is a government-sanctioned practice, whereby a person is put to death by the states as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution. You can be punished death sentence if u do some of these things, murder, mass murder, aggravated cases of rape, child rape, child sexual abuse, terrorism, treason, espionage and some other also.
In England in the 18th century, when there was no police force, Parliament drastically increased the number of capital offences to more than 200. These were mainly property offences, for example cutting down a cherry tree in an orchard. In 1820, there were 160, including crimes such as shoplifting, petty theft or stealing cattle. The severity of the so-called Bloody Code was often tempered by juries who refused to convict, or judges, in the case of petty theft, who arbitrarily set the value stolen at below the statutory level for a capital crime. The dark atmosphere of a jail and the narrator’s point of view show that capital punishment is not only the prisoner’s burden, but everyone’s burden. The story is written in the first-person point of view, since “I” am the main character of the essay. Also, the narrator himself writes, “We were waiting outside the condemned cells” and “The superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of us”, thereby giving readers information that the narrator is imperial police.
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