is the legal infliction of the death penalty. It is carried out in the United States in the following harsh ways: electrocution, hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, and the gas chamber. is wrong and must be abolished because it is ineffective, used unfairly, and with instated more and more innocent people will be sentenced to death and executed for crimes they did not commit. should be abolished because it is ineffective. People that argue in favor of say that it is a deterrent to crime; however, according to Hugo Bedau, states t ....