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339 Conclusion 340 References 340 Further Reading 340 Relevant Websites 341 The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the punishment by killing administered by the state for serious crimes . It has been one of the most widely used punishments; no people or nation seems to have been exempt from some recourse to this form of violence under the law. Today, the death penalty is still in evidence, but many countries have abolished it entirely and others have severely limited its use, preferring instead to sentence capital offenders to long terms of imprisonment. The principal explanation for the decline in the use of the death penalty is twofold: the availability of imprisonment as an adequate alternative punishment, and the increasing influence of international human rights law. Underlying that influence is the belief (more widespread in Europe today than in the United States) that the death penalty is cruel, inhuman, and unnecessary. ## Modes of Capital Punishment The death penalty has been employed in a wide variety of ways, including beheading, crucifixion, poisoning, drowning, boiling in oil, tearing asunder; none of these methods survives anywhere under current law

Author

Hugo A. Bedau

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2022

Language

EN