Keyword:

 Capital Punishment:
Is the ultimate
punishment,
it is the death penalty.
METHODS OF CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT

Capital Punishment
 The current surges and is then
Electric Chair turned off, at which time the
body is seen to relax. The
For execution by the electric doctors wait a few seconds for
chair, the person is usually
the body to cool down and then
shaved and strapped to a chair
with belts that cross the chest, check to see if the inmate's
groin, legs, and arms. A metal heart is still beating.
skullcap-shaped electrode is
attached to the scalp and
forehead over a sponge
moistened with saline. A jolt of
between 500 and 2000 volts,
which lasts for about 30
seconds, is given.
 Impalement
 Impalement, as a method of
execution and also torture, is the
penetration of a human by an
object such as a stake, pole, spear,
or hook, often by complete or
partial perforation of the torso. It
was used particularly in response
to "crimes against the state" and
regarded across a number of
cultures as a very harsh form of
capital punishment and recorded in
myth and art. Impalement was also
used during wartime to suppress
rebellion, punish traitors or
collaborators, and as a punishment
for breaches of military discipline.
 Execution by elephant

 Elephant execution was a

common method of
capital punishment in
South and South East
Asia, especially in India,
where Asian elephants
were accustomed to
crushing, dismantling or
torturing captives in
public executions.
 Hanging
 The neck is broken and
death comes quickly unless
the free fall distance is
inadequate and the prisoner
ends up being slowly
strangled to death. If the
distance is to great the rope
will tear the prisoners head
off .
 This was used in the UK for
many years!
 A black hood is pulled Firing Squad
over the prisoner's head.
A doctor locates the
inmate's heart with a
stethoscope and pins a
circular white cloth target
over it. The prisoner is
shot through the heart by
multiple marksmen.
Death is quick.
 The Guillotine

 A famous French
invention severing
the neck. Death is
quick.
 Many famous Queens
died in this way.
 Impalement
As a method of execution
and also torture, is the
penetration of a human by
an object such as a spear, or
hook, often by complete or
partial perforation of the
torso. It was used
particularly in response to
"crimes against the state"
and regarded across a
number of cultures as a very
harsh form of capital
punishment and recorded in
myth and art. Impalement
was also used during
wartime to suppress
rebellion, punish traitors or
collaborators, and as a
punishment for breaches of
military discipline.

Lethal drugs are injected into
the prisoner who is strapped to
a table. If the dosage is too low Lethal Injection
the person may linger for many
minutes, experiencing paralysis.
 Post mortems have been carried
out showing that the levels of
anaesthetic in many cases is
very low.
 Many people consider this the
most humane way as it looks as
if the person is going to sleep –
this is not the case.
 The first drug paralyses all of
their muscles so that they are
unable to show pain visibly –
however they are in pain.
 Crucifixion
 Jesus was brutally put to
death by crucifixion, a
roman method of capital
punishment, also used by
the Japanese during
World War II.
 It takes hours if not days
to die in this way.
 Hanging by the ribs
• Hanging by the ribs is
a form of execution
performed by
inserting a sharpened
hook into the side of
the condemned so
that it emerges from
between their lower
ribs and then
suspending them
from a gallows by
that hook until they
die.
 Burning at the stake
Burning at the stake -
 The best known type of

executions of death by
burning is when the
condemned is bound to a
large wooden stake (this
is usually called burning
at the stake), but other
forms of death resulting
from exposure to extreme
heat.
Methods of capital punishment used in Ireland
& Britian

 Hanging has been the principal form of execution in

Ireland & Britainsince the 5th Century, although other
methods such as:
 drowning,

 burial alive,

 hurling from cliffs

 boiling alive,

 burning at the stake

 shooting.
 Modern public opinion

The public opinion on the death penalty

varies considerably by country and by the
crime in question. Countries where a majority
of people are against execution include
Norway where only 25 percent are in favour.
Most French, Finns and Italians also oppose
the death penalty.
A 2016 Gallup poll shows that 60% of

Americans support the death penalty, down

from 64% in 2010 65% in 2006 and 68% in
2001. A 2010 poll found that 61% of
Americans would choose a penalty other than
the death sentence for murder.
 Abolition of capital punishment
 Many countries have abolished
capital punishment either in law or
in practice. Since World War II
there has been a trend toward
abolishing capital punishment.
Capital punishment has been
completely abolished by 102
countries, a further six have done
so for all offences except under
special circumstances and 32
more have abolished it in practice
because they have not used it for
at least 10 years and are believed
to have a policy or established
practice against carrying out
executions.