Capital Pinish
Submitted by kimberleeh1972 on August 7, 2011
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Capital Pinish
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head". Hence a capital crime was originally one punished by severing the head from the body.[1]
Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies (one notable exception being Kievan Rus; modern Russia does have the death penalty), although currently only 58 nations actively practice it, with 95 countries having abolished it (the remainder having not...
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