Death penalties are government-sanctioned practices, in which a person is put to

death by the state as a punishment for a particular crime. It is also known as

Capital Punishment. It is one of the cruellest types of criminal penalties that are
carried out in the form of hanging, electrocution and lethal injections.

The primary aim of the death penalty is to decrease the number of horrendous crimes
in the world. The death penalty is a legal punishment ordered by the court against
the violation of criminal laws. The methods of death penalty vary from country to
country. It gives people an idea as to what the law is capable of doing.