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)
Death row
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Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figurativel
Capital punishment
…out the sentence is an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically, the term capital (lit. 'of the head', derived via the Latin capitalis from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading, but…
The cellblock that housed death row at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia
United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute houses all but one male death row prisoners sentenced by the U.S. federal government.
Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the male death row prisoners sentenced by the U.S. state of Texas.
Louisiana State Penitentiary, which houses the male death row prisoners sentenced by the State of Louisiana