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Introduction is punishment by death for committing a crime. Since the early 1800's most executions have resulted from convictions for murder. The death penalty has also been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, and treason. Ther ....

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.... other specified crimes that result in a person's death. These crimes include armed robbery, hijacking, and kidnapping. Many countries, including most European and Latin-American nations, have abolished the death penalty since 1900 - including Canada, which did so in 1976. In the early 1990's, the United States was the only Western industrialized nation where executions still took place. History Capital punishment was common among all ancient civilizations. It was used for a variety of offenses that today aren't crimes at all, like stealing the keys to someone's wine cellar. There were many different methods of executions, and they ....