Death penalty
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Death penalty--is the period of time the felon is to be imprisoned.
Capital punishment (Death penalty) is the extreme penalty for crime. Execution of criminals for a great variety of offenses has been carried out by such methods as drowning, stoning, hanging, and beheading. Modern executions are usually done by means of electrocution, the gas chamber, or a lethal injection of a drug. Hanging is still used in some places, as is execution by firing squad.
In modern times the use of capital punishment in civilized societies has declined markedly, and the death penalty is inflicted only for the most serious crimes--such as murder or treason. In much of Western Europe capital punishment has been abolished altogether, and it is seldom used where it is legal
Some forms of execution were extremely brutal. In the Roman Empire, Persia, and in medieval Japan, crucifixion for a variety of offenders was common. This involved binding or nailing the offender to a crossbeam fixed on a vertical beam set in the ground. Death eventually ensued--from exhaustion, suffocation, bleeding, or heart failure...