More than three-fourths of the states have capital punishment laws on the books. The most popular method is lethal injection, but the noose and the electric chair remain options in some locales. Even Nevada now rejects Nevada Gas.

Since colonial times, about 15,000 people have been executed in America. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in the mid 1970s, 910 people have been executed in the U.S. Three states--Texas, Virginia, and Alabama--normally account for more than half of all annual U.S. executions. Last year, the 38 death-penalty states executed 65 people. Thus far, the states have executed 25 people in 2004.

I think it is cruel and unusual to administer lethal injection to a death row inmate who's veins are irreparably damaged from drug abuse.