Capital Punishment

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United States Michigan was first state to abolish it
for murder in 1847. Today, it is virtually abolished in all of Western
Europe and most of Latin America.

In America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (except Israel) most
countries still retain the death penalty for various crimes and impose it
with varying frequency.

Shooting and hanging are the two most common methods of execution
followed by beheading and lethal injection which is becoming almost
universal in America and is also used in the Philippines, China and
Guatemala. Electrocution and the gas chamber are used only in America and
seem to be disappearing rapidly. Stoning for sexual offences including
adultery occurs in some Islamic countries. China with a quarter of the
world's population carries out the most executions (by shooting) for a
wide variety of offences. (During 1998, along with Guatemala and the
Philippines, China has begun to move toward the use of lethal injection)

America.

In all states, ...

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