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  2. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Used at various points in history in many countries. One of the most famous methods was the guillotine. Now only used in Saudi Arabia with a sword. Stoning: The victim is battered by stones thrown by a group of people, with the injuries leading to death.

  3. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    One of the Oxford English Dictionary ' s definitions of draw is "to draw out the viscera or intestines of; to disembowel (a fowl, etc. before cooking, a traitor or other criminal after hanging)", but this is followed by "in many cases of executions it is uncertain whether this, or [to drag (a criminal) at a horse's tail, or on a hurdle or the ...

  6. Category:Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; Slovenčina; ... Execution methods (11 C, 74 P) O. Opposition to the death penalty ... 1990 Bermudian death penalty referendum; B.

  7. Public execution - Wikipedia

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    A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." [1] This definition excludes the presence of only a small number of witnesses called upon to assure executive accountability. [2]

  8. Garrote - Wikipedia

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    A 1901 execution at the old Bilibid Prison, Manila, Philippines. A garrote (/ ɡ ə ˈ r ɒ t, ɡ ə ˈ r oʊ t / gə-RO(H)T; alternatively spelled as garotte and similar variants) [1] or garrote vil (Spanish: [ɡaˈrote ˈβil]) is a weapon and a method of capital punishment.

  9. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which has never executed a prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [32] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.