Capital punishment

Legend
  Abolished for all crimes – 103 (53%)
  Abolished for all crimes except under exceptional/special circumstances (such as crimes committed in wartime) – 6 (3%)
  Not used in practice (under a moratorium or have not used capital punishment in at least 10 years) – 50 (26%)
  Retainers of the death penalty in law and practice – 36 (18%)
*Note – Accurate as of March 2015 when Suriname abolished capital punishment.

Anarchist Auguste Vaillant guillotined in France in 1894

The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883). Roman Colosseum.

Giovanni Battista Bugatti, executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, carried out 516 executions (Bugatti pictured offering snuff to a condemned prisoner). Vatican City abolished its capital punishment statute in 1969.

Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is government sanctioned punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital is derived from the Latin capitalis ("of the head", referring to execution by beheading).

单词	Capital penalty
释义	Capital penalty 英语百科 Capital punishment Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is government sanctioned punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital is derived from the Latin capitalis ("of the head", referring to execution by beheading).
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