Capital Punishment By Evan Some Things to Know

Capital Punishment By Evan

Some Things to Know About Capital Punishment is punishment on someone by the State, the punishment being death. Crimes that can be deserving of the capital punishment are called capital crimes. They vary through countries, time periods, and the severity of the crime. The name capital comes from a Latin word that literally means, “regarding the head” which is why one of the most famous forms of capital punishment was in Italy using the guillotine to decapitate someone.

Abolishing the Capital Punishment As of 2010 Amnesty International (an organization for the betterment of the world) said that most countries no longer use capital punishment. But about 60% of the world still have executions (there’s a difference). The People’s Republic of China, the United States, India, and Indonesia (the four most populous countries in the world) still use the death penalty, though India and Indonesia use it rarely.

The Death Penalty There are many ways of delivering the death penalty breaking wheel, boiling to death, blowing from a gun, burning, crucifixion, crushing (including by elephant), disembowelment, dismemberment, decapitation (the guillotine), fraying, impalement, necklacing, slow slicing, stoningsawing, and scaphism. Though in modern days the penalty is often administered in the form of the electric chair, but even that has been surpassed by the lethal injection.

Crimes Deserving of the Death Penalty In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, mean getting the death penalty as do religious crimes such as apostasy in Islamic nations (the formal renunciation of the state religion). 1 st degree murder. In many countries that use the death penalty, selling drugs is also a capital offense. In China, human trafficking and serious cases of corruption are punished by the death penalty. In militaries around the world courts-martial have imposed death sentences for offenses such as cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny.

Statistics The People’s Republic of China has executed the most people out of any country in 2010. They may have executed up to 5, 000 people, the United States has probably executed about 46, and Egypt, 4.