Death Penalty
Although there is much debate now on the issue of capital punishment it was not always like this. For most of recorded history capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has been available to every government. Capital punishment was not restricted to just murder and other serious crimes but to a variety of wrongdoing. There were also various forms of punishments. Forms included crucifixions, which dated back to B.C. and continued after the death of Christ, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, as Joan of Ark was, impaling, beheading, and seppuku, which was, forced suicide. More recent forms are lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, and shooting. These newer methods did not come about until the late eighteenth century. Executions were also conducted differently than now. Executions were made public and involved cruel methods. Punishment by death and executions were a routine part of the administration of law and no one questioned it. It was not until the era, known as the Age of Enlightenment, in the eighteenth century that the first significant movement to abolish the death penalty arose. The Age of Enlightenment encouraged people to be more independent, to start thinking on their own, and havi
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