Death Sentence

Death Sentence, sometimes also known as capital punishment, was a common punishment for crimes throughout the ages. The death sentence has increasingly fallen out of practice. Currently only 58 nations have the death sentence with 95 countries fulling abolishing it.

Academic debate has mainly focused on whether capital punishment has any deterrent effect,with many academics concluding it does not.

Furthermore,recent studies have demonstrated that the death penalty, which requires multiple layers of appeal to protect against the execution of innocent defendants, is more costly than life imprisonment.

Even in those countries where the death sentence is still practiced, there is a movement towards more humane methods of execution such as lethal injection.