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Academic Year 2020-21 First Year LLB (3 Years LLB) LC 0504-Law of Crime Topic: Capital Punishment around the World Presentation: Madhav Radhakisan Yeshwant

Capital Punishment

around the world

Examples of Ancient Method of Capital Punishment

Stoning

Keelhauling

Guillotine

Immurement

Beheading

Ancient Methods Blowing from a gun

Animals

Crucifixion

Boiling

Capital punishment: (the death penalty) The state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that someone is punished with the death penalty is called a death sentence. The act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution. Sr. No.

Burying Body

Breath Blocking (No Blood Shed)

Body Crushing (brutal murder)

1

Burial alive

Brazen bull

Animals

2

Back-breaking

Boiling to death

Blowing from a gun

3

Falling

Breaking wheel

Blood Eagle

4

Immurement

Dismemberment

Burning

5

Keelhauling

Drowning

Crucifixion

6

Heated Metal

Drawing and quartering

Crushing

7

Sawing

Garrote

Disembowelment

8

Scaphism

Poena cullei

Flaying

9

Smothering

Poisoning

Gibbeting

10

Starvation

Strangulation

Impalement

11

Stoning

Suffocation

Pendulum

12

Slow slicing

Examples of Ancient Method of Capital Punishment

Modern Methods of Capital Punishment around the world 1. Lethal injection • Carried out in: China, Vietnam, USA • The lethal injection generally consists of three chemicals: sodium pentotal (an anaesthetic), pancuronium bromide (used to paralyse the prisoner) and potassium chloride (used to stop the heart). • Scientific • Botched executions by inexperienced prison staff, the executions of some of the men and women sentenced to die by lethal injection haven’t run ‘smoothly’. • In March 2014 Dennis McGuire, an Ohio death row inmate, took 26 minutes to die by lethal injection as he lay on a gurney with his mouth opening and closing.

Modern Methods of Capital Punishment around the world 2. Electrocution • Carried out in: USA • After the prisoner is shaved and strapped to a chair, a metal skullcap-shaped electrode is attached to their scalp and forehead over a sponge moistened with saline. The prisoner is then blindfolded. A jolt of between 500 and 2000 volts, which lasts for about 30 seconds, is repeatedly administered until the prisoner is declared dead. • Just like the lethal injection, the electric chair is far from foolproof. • In 1990, Jesse Joseph Tafero suffered three jolts of electricity before he stop breathing, during which time six-inch flames erupted from his head. • This botched execution was put down to “inadvertent human error” with the inappropriate substitution of a synthetic sponge for a natural one.

Modern Methods of Capital Punishment around the world 3. Hanging • Carried out in: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, Palestinian Authority (Hamas authorities, Gaza), South Sudan, Sudan • The ‘long drop’ is the most commonly used hanging method. • In some countries prisoners are weighed the day before their execution to determine the length of ‘drop’ necessary to ensure a quick death. • If the rope is too long, the inmate could be decapitated, and if it is too short, death by strangulation could take as long as 45 minutes. • Some countries, such as Iran, use cranes to publicly hang the condemned.

Modern Methods of Capital Punishment around the world 4. Shooting • Carried out in: China, Indonesia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Taiwan, Yemen • Execution by firing squad typically involves the prisoner being bound to a chair (sitting) or a pole (standing), with a black hood pulled over their head. Up to 20 feet away, the shooters, usually no less than five of them, aim for the prisoner’s heart. • If the shooters miss their target, by accident or intention, the prisoner can bleed to death slowly.

Modern Methods of Capital Punishment around the world 5. Beheading • Carried out in: Saudi Arabia • Beheading as a form of execution is routine in Saudi Arabia. An historic form of execution, beheadings in are carried out in public using a sword, usually in a town square or close to a prison. The condemned, who is blindfolded, handcuffed and often given a sedative, typically wears white – as does the executioner. • ‘Crimes’ punishable by death in Saudi Arabia include: adultery, blasphemy, fornication, homosexuality and sorcery.

Capital Punishment and Crimes

Most countries, including almost all First World nations, have abolished capital punishment either in law or in practice; notable exceptions are the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. Additionally, capital punishment is also carried out in China, India, and most Islamic states....