1. Capital Punishment
By Evan

2. Some Things to Know About Capital Punishment
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.

3. 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.

4. The Death Penalty penalty breaking wheel, boiling to death, blowing
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.

5. 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). 1st 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.

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