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  2. Poena cullei - Wikipedia

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    Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') [1] under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of parricide. The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.

  3. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...

  4. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The Torah/Old Testament lays down the death penalty for murder, [19] kidnapping, practicing magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence [specify] suggests that actual executions were exceedingly rare, if they occurred at all. [20] [page needed] A Peshotanu was a condemned person Ancient Persia.

  5. Crucifixion - Wikipedia

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    Sudan's penal code, based upon the government's interpretation of shari'a, [141] [142] [143] includes execution followed by crucifixion as a penalty. When, in 2002, 88 people were sentenced to death for crimes relating to murder, armed robbery, and participating in ethnic clashes, Amnesty International wrote that they could be executed by ...

  6. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death. Sometimes known as "death by a thousand cuts". Pendulum. [8] A machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time (of disputed historicity). Starvation/Dehydration ...

  7. Decimation (punishment) - Wikipedia

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    Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725). In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth' [1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

  8. DA seeing death penalty for man accused of raping, murdering ...

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    A man accused of murder in connection with the death of a Moore High School senior last year now could face the death penalty.. In a case winding its way through Cleveland County District Court ...

  9. Human sacrifice - Wikipedia

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    Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in ...