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History of Capital Punishment
Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is punishment by death. The sentence that someone be punished in this manner is the death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences.

Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies as a punishment for criminals and political or religious dissidents. Historically the carrying out of the death sentence was often accompanied by torture and executions were most often public.

36 countries actively practice capital punishment, 103 countries have competently abolished it for all crimes, 6 have abolished it for ordinary crimes only while maintaining it for special circumstances such as war crimes and 50 have abolished it and not used it in ten years.

Nearly all countries in the world prohibit the execution of individuals who were under the age of eighteen at the time of their crimes, since 2009 only Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan have carried out such executions, Executions of this kind is prohibited under international law.

Capital punishment is a matter of active controversy in various states and countries, and positions can vary within a single politicians ideology or cultural region.

As far back as the ancient laws of China, the death penalty has been established as a punishment for crimes. In the 18th century BC, the code of King Hammurabi of Babylon

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