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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Punishment

Physical abuse Torture / Severe Corporal punishment Psychological abuse Humiliation / Intimidation / Bullying Hate speech / Manipulation / Stalking / Coercive persuasion Sexual abuse Sexual assault / Rape Sexual harassment Child abuse / Domestic violence Prisoner abuse / Elder abuse Animal abuse Police brutality Human experimentation Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a wrongdoer as a response to som ...

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Punishment - Possible reasons for punishment

Punishment: Encyclopedia II - Punishment - Types of punishments This is just a typology with some well-known examples. For a more exhaustive traetment follow the links, and for a more extensive list, use the category:punishments. Punishment - Judicial and similar i.e. for crimes. Socio-economical punishments: fines or loss of income confiscation demotion, suspension or expulsion (especially in a strict hierarchy, such as military or clergy) restriction or loss of civic and other rights, in the extreme even ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel written in 1866 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Along with War and Peace, this novel is among the best-known and most influential Russian novels of all time. The novel expresses Dostoevsky's religious and existentialist views, with a predominant focus on the theme of attaining salvation through suffering. Crime and Punishment - Plot. The novel portrays the haphazardly planned murder of a miser ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted felon as a punishment for a crime (often called a capital offence or a capital crime). Historically the judicial execution of criminals and political opponents was a phenomenon of nearly all societies and it was often used as a means to suppress political enemies. It was also seen as the ultimate deterrent to crime. The majority of democratic countries in Europe and Latin America have abolished capital punishment over the la ...

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Capital punishment - Views and opinions concerning the death penalty

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in Denmark

Capital punishment in Denmark (Danish: Dødsstraf) has been entirely abolished in Danish law. The last remaining possibility for capital punishment was disbanded from Danish law, in effect from January 1, 1994. Denmark has, for the most part, followed the style of other European nations, with government employed executers, called "skarpretter" in Denmark. Skarpretter had status of Royal government employees. The last man to be executed under the civil penalty law was Jens Nielsen, who was executed No ...

Punishment: Encyclopedia - Corporal punishment Judaism

The Torah describes certain forms of corporal punishment for certain sins and crimes. Corporal punishment Judaism - Types. The four types of capital punishment, known as mitath beth din (execution by the rabbinic court), are: Sekila - stoning Serefah - burning Hereg - decapitation Chenek - strangulation The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) recognises that the former two are more serious, and are administered for more serious ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in Washington

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in the U.S. state of Washington. A total of 109 executions have been carried out in the state and its preceddessor territories since 1849. All but two of those executions were by hanging. Capital punishment in Washington - History. The first hangings occurred on January 5, 1849 when Cussas and Quallahworst, two Native Americans, were hanged for murder. Executions are rarely carried out in the state — the most executions in one year was five in 1939, and the ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in Canada

The only method used in Canada for capital punishment was hanging. Before Canada eliminated the death penalty in 1976, 1481 people were sentenced to death, with 710 executed. Of those executed, 697 were men and 13 were women. Capital punishment in Canada - Arthur Ellis. Arthur Ellis was the pseudonym of Arthur B. English, a British man who became Canada's official hangman in 1913. All of his successors also adopted the pseudonym Arthur Ellis in their professional duties. The Crim ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in India

Capital punishment is legal in India although rarely used. Between 1975 and 1991, about 40 people were executed, though there was a period between 1995 and 2004 when there were no executions. Anti-death penalty activists dispute those figures, claiming much higher numbers on Death Row and actual executions. In August 2004, a 41-year-old man, Dhananjoy Chatterjee, was executed for raping and killing a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Calcutta. This was the country's first execution since 1995[1] and the first execution in West Be ...

Punishment: Encyclopedia - Collective punishment

Collective punishment is a term describing the punishment of a group of people for the crime of a few or even of one. It is contradictory to the modern concept of due process, where each individual receives separate treatment based on their individual circumstances — as they relate to the crime in question. Joseph Stalin's mass deportations of several nations of the USSR to remote regions (including the Chechens, Crimean Tatars) or the Nazi atrocities at Lidice ...

Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in France

Capital punishment in France was abolished in 1981. The last executions (by guillotine) had taken place in 1977, the last in the then European Union. The last person to be executed was Hamida Djandoubi, on September 10. France's last executioner was Marcel Chevalier. The guillotine had been proposed in 1789 by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (although similar devices had been used before elsewhere). The French Revolution in 1792 abolished hanging and required all executions to happen by means of the blade, rather than reserving it only ...

Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in Belarus

Capital punishment in Belarus is legal for a variety of crimes that are considered "grave" by the government. Belarus is the only country in Europe in which capital punishment is actively used. Capital punishment in Belarus - Crimes. Article 24 of the Constitution of Belarus states that: "Until its abolition, the death sentence may be applied in accordance with the law as an exceptional penalty for especially grave crimes and only in accordance with the verdict of a court of law."

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in Singapore

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in Singapore. The state has the highest per-capita execution rate, estimated by the United Nations to be 13.57 executions per one million population between 1994 to 1999. The next highest was Saudi Arabia with 4.65. All executions are carried out by hanging at Changi Prison at Fridays' dawn. All capital trials take place in public, before one High Court judge, and each person sentenced to death is automatically entitled to one appeal to the Court of Appeal. The transcripts ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Cruel and unusual punishment

The statement that the government shall not inflict cruel and unusual punishment for crimes is found in the English Bill of Rights signed in 1689 by King William III and Queen Mary II who were then the joint rulers of England following the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. These exact words later appeared in the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1787). Very similar words ('No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment') appear in Article Five of the Universal Declaration ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in New Hampshire

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in the U.S. state of New Hampshire for the crime of capital murder. Twenty-four people have been executed since 1734, with the last execution carried out in 1939. As of 2005, there is no person on "Death Row". Hanging is the method of execution historically used in the state. Lethal injection, is currently the only legal form of execution ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in New Zealand

Capital punishment in New Zealand was abolished in 1989, and was last used in 1957. During the period in which the death penalty was in effect, a total of 85 people were executed. Capital punishment in New Zealand - Method. The method of execution in New Zealand was hanging. At first, there were many possible execution sites all around the country, but later, the only two cities in which hangings could be carried out were Wellington (the capital) and Auckland (the largest city). Initially, there was no prof ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, now entirely abolished in all circumstances, has a long history, dating from before the modern United Kingdom actually existed. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom - Origins. Hanging by the neck as form of capital punishment was introduced to Britain by the Anglo-Saxon invaders of the 5th century. By the 10th century it had become a common method of execution. William the Conqueror decreed that hanging should only be used for conspirators or in times of war and ...

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Punishment: Encyclopedia - Capital punishment in the United States

* 7 inmates are on death row in more than one state, making total lower than sum of state numbers. Capital punishment in the United States is officially sanctioned by 36 of the 50 states, as well as by the federal government. The overwhelming majority of executions are performed by the states; the federal government maintains the right to use capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) but does so relatively infrequently. Each state practicing capital punishment h ...