Capital punishment
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ord
Execution of Louis XVI
Anarchist Auguste Vaillant about to be guillotined in France in 1894
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883). Roman Circus Maximus.
The Death of Socrates (1787)
Sharia
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Sharia, also transliterated as Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah, is a body of religious law that form the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic te
Islamic miniature of Musa receiving the Tawrat from the angel Jibril.
Imam Shafi'i tomb in Cairo, died 820 CE/204 AH
Safaitic script with a figure of a camel on a red sandstone fragment, from es-Safa, currently housed in the British Museum
In the laws of Hammurabi, an eye for an eye was applied if a free man (avīlum) gouged out the eye/broke the bone of another free man of equal status; otherwise, a monetary penalty was paid.