Death penalty in different countries

Made by: Karolis Ramaauskas Edvinas atas Lukas Valauskas Edgar Lukaevi Akvil Ubeikait Donatas Misinas

Death penalty

Code of Hammurabi
The earliest code Different punishment and compensation according to the different class/group

Athenian legal system

Written by Draco Death penalty used for wide range of crimes

Methods of execution
Beheading, Electric chair, Gas chamber, Hanging, Lethal injection, Shooting.

Historical penalties
Breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing (including crushing by elephant), stoning, dismemberment, sawing, decapitation, or blowing from a gun.

Death penalties in countries:

Russia/Belarus

Capital punishment in United States

Thesis

In the past, the government has regulated the use of the death penalty in the United States. Presently, the individual states decide if the death penalty should be used. In the future, the death penalty should be legal and used in all fifty states.

Past

The death penalty was first introduced in America in 1608. In colonial times people first began to speak out against capital punishment. In 1890 the electric chair was used for the first time. Some states implemented capital punishment while others did not.

Past

In 1972, Supreme Court heard the case of Furman v. Georgia. Capital punishment was suspended.

Past

To get around Furman v. Georgia, states rewrote statutes. In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled through Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was legal.

Present

Once declared constitutional, it was up to the individual state whether they wanted to use capital punishment. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled through Stanford v. Kentucky that minors could be executed. The same year, the Supreme Court ruled through Penry v. Lynaugh that mentally challenged people could be sentenced to death.

Present

Currently, 36 states use capital punishment.

Future

In the future, the death penalty should be mandatory in all 50 states. It deters criminals from committing crimes.

Future

Capital Punishment is the only thing that can stop criminals from committing crimes. If sentenced to life without parole, criminals have no incentive to not murder. Assaults in prisons all over the US, both against fellow inmates and against staff, have more than doubled in the past decade.-Criminal Justice Institute, Middletown, Connecticut.

Future

With all the work and extra care that is put into cases of people up for the death penalty, there is very little chance that an innocent person will be wrongly sentenced. Capital punishment isnt cruel and unusual punishment, life sentence without parole is though.

Future

The laws that specify what crimes are worthy of the death penalty should be clear and unchanging. Murder, rape resulting in death, and rape of a minor are three crimes that are worthy of the death penalty. The right to appeal should be limited to special cases. There are too many people sitting on death row because they are waiting for an appeal. The only method of capital punishment should be lethal injection.

Conclusion

The death penalty has been a very controversial issue through the decades. Capital punishment is the only effective way to deter crime. The Federal government has regulated the use of the death penalty in the past. Now it is up to the individual state whether they want to use it. In the future, it should be mandatory throughout the entire country.

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(29%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice. (49%) have abolished it. (5%) retain it for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as in time of war). (17%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is under a moratorium.

2010 - The following 23 countries carried out or are believed by Amnesty International to have carried out executions in 2010: Bahrain (1), Bangladesh (9+), Belarus (2), Botswana (1), China (2000+), Egypt (4), Equatorial Guinea (4), Iran (252+), Iraq (1+), Japan (2), Libya (18+), Malaysia (1+), North Korea (60+), Palestinian Authority (5), Saudi Arabia (27+), Singapore (0+), Somalia (8+), Sudan (6+), Syria (17+), Taiwan (4), USA (46), Vietnam (0+), Yemen (53+).

2011 - Following 9 countries during 2011: Bangladesh, China, Iran, North Korea, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, USA.

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Thailand, the law prescribes the death penalty for carrying category I narcotics (heroin) "for the purpose of disposal". The death penalty for drug trafficking has not been imposed since 2004, but rehabilitation counselling is often imposed on convicted drug users.

 Thailand

entered a reservation to Article 6 of the ICCPR, stating that it is theoretically possible for a 17 year old to be executed under the Penal Code, but that a court has the discretion not to impose such a sentence. between 1994 and 2003, Thailand executed 48 people

 In

2010 the total number of those under sentence of death numbered 708. The uncrease to 759 is consistent with the 53 reported death sentences in the last year.

Thailand has a death penalty for serious drug offenses and has executed convicted traffickers.

Death

penalty for regicide; sedition or rebellion; offences committed against the external security of Thailand; murder or attempted murder of a foreign head of state; bribery; arson; rape; murder with intent; kidnapping; robbery resulting in death

Death penalty in Lithuania

LITHUANIA - Abolitionist Government: parliamentary democracy State of civil and political rights: Free Constitution: 25 October 1992, last amended 13 July 2004 Legal System: based on civil law system Legislative System: Unicameral Parliament (Seimas) Judicial System: Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Court of Appeal; judges for all courts appointed by the President Religion: Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4.1%, Protestant 1.9%, other

Executions of death penalty in Lithuania was started in 1992. The last executed person, in July 1995, was Lithuanian Mafia boss Boris Dekanidze, for complicity in the murder of a journalist. A legal moratorium on executions was established in 1996, following a presidential decree. Lithuania abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1998 after the Lithuanian Constitutional Court, on December 9, held that the provisions of the Criminal Code on the death penalty were unconstitutional. From Independence to the suspension of the death penalty seven inmates was executed by shooting them down.

Inmates who were executed by death sentence

1992 August 8 - Aleksandras Novatkis

1993 December 12, - Vladimiras Ivanovas 1993 December 12, - Valentinas Laskys

1994 January 27, - Vidmantas ibaitis

1994 September 28, - Antanas Varnelis 1995 May 18, - Aleksandras Gudkovas

Aleksandras Novatkis He was the first inmate who was executed in independent Lithuania. On 1991 September 30 he broke in his friend flat and robbed it. While he was doing this crime a 14 years old girl came back home from school. He killed her by using knife.
On 1992 August 8th A.Novatkis was executed for a crime he did.

Vladimiras Ivanovas. From Klaipda. On 1992 October 9th he killed women and her daughter who was only 4 years old. He killed women by wounding her with knife. After this he sealed girls mouth put her under the couch where she chocked. He was executed on 1993 December 12th.

Valentinas Laskys. From Kaunas. Sentenced to death for doing 4 murders and for about 10 robberies. His daughter was accomplice in committing all crimes. From 1991 to 1993 they where most wanted in Lithuania. He was caught in Moldovia. Executed on 1993 December 12th.

Vidmantas ibaitis. From Panevezys.

He killed 3 people with the view to rob them. He did all his crimes in 1992. Executed on 1994 January 27th.

Antanas Varnelis. From Gelgaudiskis. He was the first serial killer in Lithuania. On 1992 he robbed and killed 6 elderly people. He was caught on 1992 December. Executed on 1992 September 28th.

Aleksandras Gutkovas. From Siauliai. Sentenced to death for killing two old people from his neighborhood. Executed on 1995 May 18th.

Boris Dekanidze. From Vilnius. He was boss of mafia called Vilnius Brigada. Convicted of the murder of journalist Vitas Lingys organization in October 1993. Executed on 1995 July 12th.
He was the last one who was executed by death sentence in Lithuania.

Nowadays death penalty is banned in Lithuania. People who receive the death penalty till 1996 are still alive. Their death sentence was changed to imprisonment for life.

Capital punishment in the Republic of China

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in the Republic of China. The main types of execution are a shot in the head or injection.

Offences
Under military law:

Under civilian law:

Treason; Desertion; Mutiny; Hijacking and ect.

Murder; Piracy; Kidnapping; Robbery with murder and ect.

Execution process

The death penalty shall be appointed by the Supreme Court of the Republic of China but the date and time of death provides the Ministry of Justice; Case may be reviewed if anyone has any new evidence or a procedural defect then the death penalty be postponed; Unfortunately absent from the death penalty be abolished, but there are two known cases in which prisoners were exempt from the death penalty in the 1988th. and 1991st., President Chiang Kai-shek legal right;

Executions are carried out inside the detention centers of the five cities having a High Court: Taipei, Taichung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung and Hualien;

Before the execution prisoners work in various jobs, and half an hour before the execution they are allowed to read newspapers, books or pray; On the appointed day and time designated by the prisoner confirmed his identity and his last recorded words, and then he returned to the chamber for a last meal.
Five minutes before the execution the prisoner must be brought to the place and he received deadly injection, or shot in the head.

Place of execution

The death penalty should be abolished because:

Death penalty is irreversible which always involve the risk of executing the innocent; Death penalty can be misused by the authority as a tool of oppression;
Death penalty is contradictory to the concept of human rights.

The death penalty should not be abolished because:

It is cheaper for the government to kill murderers then to keep them in prison; Executions deter criminals from committing crimes; Society has a moral right to punish the most violent criminals by taking their lives.

Estimated numbers of executions around the world (in 2007 and 2008 year chart)

"I came out of the execution chamber dazed, shaken. We had imitated the worst violence I found and put it in a protocol, legalized it, i had killed someone who killed others in an impossible moral contradiction of trying to teach our children that killing is wrong. I came out and all I knew, I must find a way to tell this story so that we can change this in our society and we will do this no more to human beings. "

By sr. Helen Prejean (Apr. 15, 2001)