A drawing depicting a team of archaeologists' death sentence.[1]
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head". Hence a capital crime was originally one punished by severing the head from the body, typically during medieval times or in poor countries like Iraq.
Types of capitol punishment
- Execution by burning
- Execution by firing squad
- Lethal injection
- Electric chair
References
- ↑ As seen in River of Doom.
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