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2. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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   Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.

3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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   The victim is placed in cage hanging from a gallows-type structure in a public location and left to die to deter other existing or potential criminals. Immurement. The confinement of the victim by walling in. Though this was also used as a form of imprisonment for life, in which case, the victim was usually fed and watered.

4. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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   Of all present European countries, San Marino, Portugal and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment; Romania banned it even earlier in 1864, but it was much later reintroduced from 1936 to 1990 during the dictatorial and communist eras; in Italy the nationwide ban on the death penalty dates from 1889 (capital punishment had ...

5. Hanging - Wikipedia

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   La Pendaison (The Hanging), a plate from French artist Jacques Callot's 1633 series The Great Miseries of War. Hanging has been a method of capital punishment in many countries, and is still used by many countries to this day. Long-drop hanging is mainly used by former British colonies, while short-drop and suspension hanging is common ...

6. Public execution - Wikipedia

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   In London in the early 19th century, there might have been 5,000 to watch a standard hanging, but crowds of up to 100,000 came to see a famous felon killed. The numbers hardly changed over the years. An estimated 20,000 watched Rainey Bethea hang in 1936, in what turned out to be the last public execution in the U.S." [32]

7. Places where modern day cannibalism still exists - AOL

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   Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...

8. Decapitation in Islam - Wikipedia

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   By the end of the 20th century, its use had been abandoned in most countries. Decapitation is still a legal method of execution in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. [1] It is also a legal method for execution in Zamfara State, Nigeria under Sharia. [2] In Iran, beheading was last used in 2001 according to Amnesty International, but it is no longer in use ...

9. Saturday Night Live: Who is hosting and how to watch the ...

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   Saturday Night Live returns for its milestone 50th season tonight.. The new series will see a re-assembled lineup of familiar faces, plus three new cast members.. Punkie Johnson announced in ...