Capital Punishment Capital punishment 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. Capital punishment is wrong and must be abolished because it is ineffective, used unfairly, and with capital punishment instated more and more innocent people will be sentenced to death and executed for crimes they did not commit. Capital punishment should be abolished because it is ineffective. People that argue in favor of capital punishment say that it is a deterrent to crime; however, according to Hugo Bedau, s