Capital punishment (CP), or the death penalty, is the killing of a person by the process of law as punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The Supreme Court of India ruled in 1980 that the death penalty should be imposed only in “the rarest cases.” Capital crimes in India include murder, gang robbery with murder, waging war against the State, committing terrorist activities and abetting mutiny by member of the armed forces. Death sentence in India is still awarded, but rarely. It is carried out by hanging. There was no execution in India between 1995 and 2004.
CP is known to have existed, the world over since recorded history. Originally, the most common method was severing of the head. Severe penalties included the breaking wheel, boiling to death, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucification, impalement, crushing (including crushing by elephant), stoning, and execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, and decapitation. Countries have moved to more human executions that include guillotine, long drop hanging, gas chamber, lethal injection etc. Death sentence is still awarded in 55 countries. It is abolished in 95 countries while about 44 countries have not awarded CP during the pas 10 years. Singapore, Japan and the USA are the only “fully” developed countries that have retained the death penalty. The European Union and the Council of Europe both strictly require member states not to practice the death penalty.
CP is known to have existed, the world over since recorded history. Originally, the most common method was severing of the head. Severe penalties included the breaking wheel, boiling to death, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucification, impalement, crushing (including crushing by elephant), stoning, and execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, and decapitation. Countries have moved to more human executions that include guillotine, long drop hanging, gas chamber, lethal injection etc. Death sentence is still awarded in 55 countries. It is abolished in 95 countries while about 44 countries have not awarded CP during the pas 10 years. Singapore, Japan and the USA are the only “fully” developed countries that have retained the death penalty. The European Union and the Council of Europe both strictly require member states not to practice the death penalty.
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