This is a list of methods of
capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...
, also known as execution.
Current methods
These methods of capital punishment are currently legal in at least one country.
Former methods
Many historically recorded methods of execution include
torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including corporal punishment, punishment, forced confession, extracting a confession, interrogational torture, interrogation for information, or intimid ...
, often intending to make a spectacle of pain and suffering with overtones of
sadism, cruelty, intimidation, and
dehumanisation, at times aimed at attempting to deter the commission of offences. Some of these methods may still be in practice by
terrorist groups.
See also
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Capital punishment in Judaism
References
External links
Death Penalty Worldwide: Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world.
Smile of death:China History Punishment
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