CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Mustaq Sayyed Section-G

2013, Capital Punishment- Mustaq Sayeed

WHAT IS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ?

Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by judicial process for retribution, and general deterrence. Capital punishment has been practiced in virtually every society, and thus can be considered to be a cultural universal or close to it, excluding those with state religious proscriptions against it.

FORMS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

HANGING- The act or practice of putting a person to death by suspending the body by the neck.

SHOOTING- The method of execution requires all members of the group to fire simultaneously, thus preventing both disruption of the process by a single member and identification of the member who fired the lethal shot.

BEHEADING- Its the separation of the head of a person from his body.

GUILLOTINE- The Guillotine was a device used to carry out executions by decapitation.

LETHAL INJECTION- Practice of injecting a criminal offender with a fatal dose of drugs for the express process of executing the process.

ELECTROCUTION- is an execution method in which the person being put to death is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. once the person was attached to the chair, various cycles (differing in voltage and duration) of alternating current would be passed through the condemned's body, in order to fatally damage the internal organs (including the brain).

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