Capital Punishment In The Modern World
Capital punishment comes from the term 'poena' in Latin, which refers to the penalty imposed by the judge in a court when the judge believes that a crime was committed, this imposes a penalty that in this case is death directly. This does not happen in all countries nowadays, since this has been in decline in recent centuries. Capital punishment is an act that takes up the principles of our history (ancient age, middle ages, contemporary age and modern age), it could also be said that the death penalty started with the law of Talion that says 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth'. This is considered as the hardest punishment that can be imposed on a person and the family of the person who presents the case, because not only the person about to die but also his family suffers.
There are very few countries that support this law, such as the United States, China, Syria, Japan and 21 other countries, but just as there are some countries that support this punishment, there are 142 that abolished this. China is the country with the most executed per year, it is estimated that in 2017 thousands of people were executed but there is no exact figure, however Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan are also countries where there is a large number of executed for years. The countries which accept this capital punishment law, use it for certain crimes as well as in Saudi Arabia they use it when a bank robbery is committed, in China it occurs when it is committed (human trafficking, serious tax fraud, violation, trafficking of drugs, possession of drugs in certain amount and also corruption of officials), as well as these crimes and more are punished in the countries that support the capital punishment law.
Some of the methods they use to carry out the death penalty are classified in two, which they used for some time now. In the past it was very common to carry out bonfires, gallows, decapitation, assailing, stoning, firing, dropping, throwing the beasts, drowning in water, wall collapse on the executed, walling, strangulation, stabbing, dismemberment, crucifixion, poisoning, to swallow molten lead, run over with a car, be trampled by elephants, etc. but at the end of the 18th century, more humanitarian ways were sought to carry out what was the capital punishment. On the other hand at present in the United States the electric chair and the gas chamber were introduced as a more humanitarian way, but they were displaced by the lethal injection but this has been cataloged as very painful. Capital punishment is a not very human act that has been going on for many years, but in a certain way and in a balanced way it serves to maintain control of those who violate the law.
