The death penalty

DEFINITION:
The death penalty or the capital punishment is considered like a body penalty
because the punishment has an direct effect on the bodys punished
As its name tells, the death penalty consists in taking the life of the person who,
according to the judge, is considered guilty of a serious misconduct.
ORIGIN:
It could be said that the death penalty has its origin in the Law of Talin
(an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth), that is collected in the code of
Hammurabi In the seventeenth century B.C (before Christ).

PERSONALITIES THAT WERE ACCORDING TO THE DEATH PENALTY

Anyway , many personalities throughout history

Have supported or justified this type of penalty, such as Plato, Aristotle,
Saint Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

COUNTRIES WHERE THE PENALTY OF DEATH IS ALLOWED

The situation of the death penalty is different around the world.

It has been abolished and penalized in almost all European countries (except
Belarus), and most of those in Oceania (such as Australia and New Zealand).

The majority of Latin American countries have abolished the death penalty,
while in countries such as the United States of America, Guatemala and most of
the Caribbean states it is still applies.

In Asia the death penalty is allowed in countries such as China, India, Indonesia,
Iran or Japan. In Africa, it is still used in several countries, especially in the
northeastern part of the continent (Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya or Sudan).
The death penalty continues to be applied in the majority of Arab countries and throughout the Middle East.

The countries that have ended it are 160 of which 104 are totally abolitionist, six prevent it for ordinary crimes, in other six
Countries that have put an end are 160 of which 104 are totally abolitionists 6 impede it for ordinary crimes, 6 govern a

moratorium and 44 dont apply the death penalty for more than a decade .

Capital crimes at the present

In the majority of states with death penalty , it is currently applied only for
particularly serious crimes, such as blood crimes (murder or parricide). Many
States also punish the death penalty, in time of war, for the crimes of treason,
espionage, sabotage, or desertion.
Capital punishment is also applied to the following crimes:

Bank robbery saudi arabia

Kidnapping (Guatemala);
traffic of people - china
Robbery resulting in death (United States);
rape , china saud arabia
illegal use of firearms singapore
terrorist attacks on oil installations india
drug traffic, possession of drugs in a certain amount (Indonesia, Saudi Arabia,
Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China)
illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol (India)
corruption of officials china irak
procuration (saud arabia );

In Islamic-majority states, under the influence of Sharia Islamiya (Islamic law),

body of law, the death penalty applies to the following behaviors, which in most
countries dont even deserve civil or criminal reproach:

male homosexual acts, even in private, even if they are between consenting
adults

adultery

abandonment of Islam

blasphemy and witchcraft