Capital punishment/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Crime [r]: Acts or omissions that are made offences against the law and which are prosecuted by the State. ^[e]
• Law [r]: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. ^[e]
• Punishment [r]: The imposition of a penalty for a wrong-doing, often a crime. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Beheading [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Guillotine [r]: A device developed by Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French physician, as a humane device for execution. ^[e]
• Electric chair [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gas chamber [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hanging [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lethal injection [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shooting [r]: A collection of sports broadly sub-divided by the type of gun being used (i.e., pistol, rifle, shotgun). ^[e]
  • Firing squad [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Cardioplegia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. ^[e]
• Potassium chloride [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Succinylcholine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thiopental [r]: Add brief definition or description