Capital punishment

legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime

thumb|right|Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, [[Saint Petersburg, Russia]] thumb|right|Photograph (Hand-colouring of photographs|hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword) thumb|right|Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 thumb|right|Stylised depiction of public execution of pirates in Hamburg, Germany, 10 September 1573

punishment

execution immediately after being accused of a crime, without a fair trial; usually understood to mean capture, accusation, and execution all conducted during a very short span of time

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execution site for public executions

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meal preceding one's execution

ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment

extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with judicial punishment

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rights of LGBT people in Mauritania

form of psychological torture

rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Somalia

worldwide festivity that supports the abolition of the death penalty

form of capital punishment carried out publicly

intentional and premeditated killing of an innocent person by means of capital punishment

illegitimate punishment carried out outside the ordinary legal system

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United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in 2007

Jewish laws on capital punishment

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emotional distress often felt by prisoners on death row

one of the functions of punishment

death penalty for sexual activity between persons of the same sex

overview of capital punishment in the Middle East

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execution of a convict who is actually innocent

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euphemism for execution in Stalin's Soviet Union