1. What is Capital punishment?
1.1. Practice of demonstration/ punishment executions performed on individuals caught disobeying the Countries laws
1.1.1. The laws are specific and are labelled Capital crimes, Offenses or felonies
1.1.1.1. E.G murder, mass murder, rape, child rape, sexual abuse, terrorism, crimes against humanity and other crimes of that severity
1.2. In America can only be used by a state, (Current)- As a result when a non-state organisation claims to have gone forth with an "execution", they have actually committed murder
1.2.1. Hanging, shooting, lethal injection, gassing, stoning, electrocution and beheading have all been forms of Capital punishment previously
1.3. After a Just legal trial
1.3.1. there have been cases where people were executed without trial in the past- often during revolutions
2. History of capital punishment in England and abolition
2.1. Ruth Ellis was an escort. She was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom, after being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely.
2.1.1. 1955
2.2. Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans
2.2.1. voted by 343 to 185, a majority of 158, that the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, should not expire. Thus, the death penalty for murder was formally abolished. Abolition of capital punishment in the UK- TAKEN FROM capitalpunishmentuk.org/abolish.html
2.2.2. Murder during a robbery
2.3. The last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging in 1964
2.3.1. suspended for murder in 1964 and abolished fully in 1969
3. Global statistics
3.1. A YouGov poll has shown that less than half - 45% - of people still support the death penalty, down from 51% in 2010.
4. Important Countries which currently utilise Capital punishment.
4.1. 56 countries as of current retain rights to use and maintain Capital punishment
4.1.1. Over 60% live in an area where the Death Penalty is effective- China, India, US, Japan etc.
4.1.2. controversial
4.2. 106 abolished Capital punishment
4.3. 8 Have abolished Capital punishment concerning regular crimes
5. Examples in religion
5.1. Etimology
5.1.1. latin derived
5.1.2. The term capital (Lit of the head
5.1.2.1. derived from Capitalis from caput "Head"