Famous Cases Involving Capital Punishment

Throughout history Capital Punishment has been a harsh penalty in which people faced when they committed severe crimes. There have been many significant people that faced the death penalty due to their actions, for example: Che Guevara, he was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. Guevara had been a major figure throughout the Cuban Revolution and became part of Fidel Castro’s efforts to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. Che Guevara was executed in 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader at the age of 39 was killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces and captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerrillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the following day. Another individual by the name of John Wayne Gacy was known as the “Killer Clown”, was an American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. Although he maintained his innocence, he was found guilty in 1980 and given multiple death penalty and life sentences. In 1994, he had been executed by lethal injection. Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer and necrophiliac who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. When he confessed to his 30 homicides that he had committed from 1974-1978 he was faced with death penalty , and died on January 24 1989.