This is a list of methods of
capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that ...
, also known as execution.
Current methods
Ancient methods
Many of the former methods combine execution with torture, often intending to make a spectacle of pain and suffering with overtones of
sadism
Sadism may refer to:
* Sadomasochism, the giving or receiving of pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation
* Sadistic personality disorder, an obsolete term proposed for individuals who derive pleasure from the s ...
, cruelty, intimidation, and
dehumanisation.
See also
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Capital punishment in Judaism
Capital punishment in traditional Jewish law has been defined in Codes of Jewish law dating back to medieval times, based on a system of oral laws contained in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, the primary source being the Hebrew Bible. In ...
References
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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.
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