Capital punishment has ever been a highly-discussed and controversy topic. In spite of the trend of abolishment it is still part of the laws in many Arabian, Communist and Fascist countries - and of course in most states of the USA. There, paradoxically, it was dealt with in many popular movies against it, like Dead man walking, The Green Mile or last The Life of David Gale. Death penalty has been carried out ever since in human history: Starting in the Stone Age, it developed terrible ways which got typical for the Middle Ages - remember torture, quartering, impaling or the burning of witches...

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