I will tell you about the death penalty and how it relates to the three branches of government. I will also tell you about how the death penalty has affected people's lives from the past to the present day. The death penalty is the process by which one is sentenced to death for a crime committed by the person, be it murder, espionage, treason or military justice. Other crimes, such as sexual crimes, carry the death penalty for rape, adultery, incest and sodomy, while crimes punishable by death by the military are cowardice, desertion, insubordination and mutiny. In some parts of the world, the death penalty is called capital punishment due to numerous controversies in many parts of the world. For the executive branch, Barack Obama, opposed the death penalty in 1996, so he wrote the memoir called The Audacity of Hope in an attempt to end the death penalty. Unfortunately in 2004, when Obama ran for the US Senate, he saw the death penalty as a way to bring justice to those who had been committed. Not many people know what changed his mind next...