CAPITAL CHARGE

CAPITAL CHARGE

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes or capital offences, and they commonly include offences such as

WHY?

HISTORY

• 5th B.C. Roman Law of the Twelve Tablets

•14th B.C. Hittite Code

• 17th B.C. Draconian Code of Athens (only punishment)

•18th B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon (25 crimes)

RIGHT TO KILL

Most of the Constitutions state “the right to life”. The right to life is not the something that constitutions create or even confer. The constitution only recognises this inalienable and indispensable right. The constitutional provision is therefore, only evidentiary value.

"after ten years of hard prison, a man is lost to the people's community anyway. Thus what to do with such a guy is either put him into a concentration camp, or kill him. In latest times the latter is more important, for the sake of deterrence.“

- Adolf Hitler

The Great Purge or the Great Terror was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved a large- scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of wealthy landlords and the Red Army leadership, widespread police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.