Capital punishment

Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.

Frontier justice (also called vigilante justice or street justice) is extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with justice.

Carabanchel Prison was constructed by political prisoners after the Spanish Civil War between 1940 and 1944 in the Madrid neighbourhood of Carabanchel.

The right to life is a moral principle based on the belief that a human being has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another human being.

Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was an American man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia.

Louisiana ex rel.

A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.

Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was an English man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman, which was committed in the course of a burglary attempt.

Steven Murray Truscott (born January 18, 1945 Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in 1959 for the rape and murder of classmate Lynne Harper.

Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.

A scaffold (French: échafaud, German: Schafott) is a raised, stage-like site for public executions.

"Brian: Portrait of a Dog" is the seventh episode and the season finale of the first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy.

The Jewish tradition describes certain forms of corporal punishment and capital punishment for certain crimes, while cautioning against the use of such punishments.

An execution warrant (also called death warrant or black warrant) is a writ which authorizes the execution of a judgment of death (capital punishment) on an individual.

Death row, in English-speaking countries that have capital punishment, is the place, often a section of a prison, that houses prisoners awaiting execution.

Wrongful Execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment, the "death penalty".

"25 Minutes to Go" is a song by Shel Silverstein, from his 1962 album Inside Folk Songs.

Death by a Thousand Cuts is a book by the historians Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue and scientific researcher Jérôme Bourgon which examines the use of slow slicing or lingchi, a form of torture and capital punishment practised in mid- and late-Imperial China from the tenth century until its abolition in 1905.