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Arrangement

1.
Introduction

2. Figures and facts

3. History

4. Reasons for a capital punishment

5. Methods

6. Argumentation

7. Case studies

1. Introduction
- The capital punishment is oldest of all punishments within the human society and at the same time the most radical punishment of a person
- Since 1532 there are officially certain regulations. Before the capital punishment was already covered since thousands of years arbitrarily
- In every epoch the capital punishment was carried out from the most different motives.
- Besides, motives are very extensive

In the course of the centuries it was executed in the most different name:
in the name of the justice
in the name of the gods
in the name of the people
or from polit. Found

2. Figures and facts
- In 103 countries the capital punishment still is fully in strength
- Per year become about in 2000 - 4000 executions carried out worldwide (however, approx. 6000 death sentences spoken ~> judgments partially again secludedly)
- During the 2nd world war there was more than 16,000 death sentences during the 1st world war only ten
- 74% of the convicted have no education, few friends and broken families.
- The costs for a capital punishment approx. 3 million dollars (total expenses for all negotiations, custody costs, enforcement of the punishment etc.)
- More blacks than whiteness are executed (e.g., in Florida many blacks will be sentenced to death 40 times as a whiteness)

3. History
- In Germany and most other states of Western Europe as well as Central America and South America abolished.
- In the GDR in 1987 abolished, Austria in 1950, Switzerland in 1942
- Last in 1983 in France, in 1994 in Spain, in 1996 in Belgium.
- During the past 10years on an average one country per year has abolished the capital punishment.

4. Reasons

- It is exactly to be separated almost not possibly this area.
- The punishment is covered for the most different criminal offences.
- In the most frequent cases murder, sexual crime (Islam).

5. Methods
Modern execution kinds are:
Shoot, electric chair, gas chamber, stony, poison syringe, hanging

Ancient methods:
To wheels, quartering, vividly buried, drowning, beheading, crucifying, rock fall, dividing, combustion


- The most common kinds are Hang and shooting.
- Stoning and the decapitation with the sword are applied exclusively in Islamic states.
- Poison syringe or 2,000 volts of electric chair are common only in the USA.



6. Arguments

For it (which are attached over and over again)
- It serves for the deterrence. Nevertheless, this was disproved by studies.
- It should be a repayment (Who kills somebody must die itself)
- It holds culprit from other actions (e.g., terrorists).
- It is cheaper than lifelong prison sentences (Also this was disproved A capital punishment costs a lifelong prison sentence only 500,000$) to a total of 3 million $

Against it:
- The punishment is already before real vollziehung bruta