I'm going to talk to you about the death penalty and how it is associated with the three branches of government. I will also talk to you about how the death penalty has affected people's lives from past to present. The death penalty is the process by which you are sentenced to death for a heinous crime that the person has committed, whether it is murder, espionage, treason, or military justice. Other crimes, such as sex crimes, are punishable by death for rape, adultery, incest and sodomy, while military crimes punishable by death are cowardice, desertion, insubordination and mutiny. In some parts of the world, the death penalty is called capital punishment due to the many controversies that exist in many parts of the world. For the executive branch, Barack Obama opposed the death penalty in 1996 and therefore wrote a memoir entitled The Audacity of Hope. to try to end the death penalty. Unfortunately, in 2004, when Obama ran for the U.S. Senate, he saw the death penalty as a way to bring justice to those who had committed the heinous crimes they had committed. Few people know what made him change his mind afterwards...