Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

Capital punishment has in the past been practised by most societies ( one notable exception being Kievan Rus ); currently 58 nations actively practice it, and 97 countries have abolished it ( the remainder have not used it for 10 years or allow it only in exceptional circumstances such as wartime ).

Vatican City abolished Capital punishment in Vatican City | its capital punishment statute in 1969.

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* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

Capital punishment, actions taken against armed civilians during mob action or riot, and the deaths of noncombatants killed during attacks on military targets so long as the primary target is military, are not considered democide.

During the 19th century criminal law reform incrementally reduced the number of capital offences to five ( see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom ), and forfeiture for felony was abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

* 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished by Tynwald in 1993 ( although the last execution on the island took place in 1872 ).

* 1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.

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* 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

* 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

* 1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U. S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

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* The power to grant Prerogative of mercy ( though Capital Punishment is abolished, this power is still used to remedy errors in sentence calculation )

* Capital punishment, the act of putting a person to death, in execution of a judicial sentence of death

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Whilst sister-station Ocean FM would take on a softer sound, Power FM took on Capital FM's long-established, successful and highly polished sound, with news bulletins at the top of the hour finishing with the sentence " And that's the way it is at < time check >".

Capital punishment is a legal but rarely carried out sentence in India.

After Marx's death, Engels devoted much of his remaining years to editing Marx's unfinished volumes of Capital.

The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 ended public executions, requiring that criminals be put to death in private, after which executions were performed inside the castle.

Nevertheless Ryan ( dubbed " Red Richie " by Fianna Fáil ) implemented the Coalition's plans to replace death duties with a range of capital taxes, including Capital Gains Tax and Wealth Tax.

** United Nations General Assembly Resolution 62 / 149: Called for a universal moratorium on Capital Punishment with a view to total abolition, and in the meantime, respect for the rights of those on death row.

At the time of his death ( 1883 ) Karl Marx had prepared the manuscript for Capital, Volume IV, a critical history of theories of surplus value of his time, the nineteenth century.

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By tradition, after the death of an Emperor, the body was to be accompanied to the Capital by the regents.

A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medici's large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medicean villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her Palatine treasures to the Tuscan state, on the condition that no part of it could be removed from " the Capital of the grand ducal State .... from the succession of His Serene Grand Duke.

This was considered somewhat more kind than the slow death by strangulation caused by the " short drop " method, which was particularly distressing to prison governors and staff who were required to witness executions at close quarters following the abolition of public executions by the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868.

Capital punishment in the United States can be administered for a wide variety of crimes ranging from drug trafficking crimes that result in a person's death, to aggravated murder.

Capital punishment has been expanded ; two defendants are seen facing the death penalty for attempted rape.

Before his death, her father gave her the task of taking care of the publication of his unfinished manuscripts and the English language version of his main work, Capital.

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He reported the shock Lincoln shared at learning that prisoners had been left to freeze and starve to death in the shadow of the Confederate Capital.

On 5 May 1981, Margaret Reid was elected by a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, following the sudden death of her close friend, Senator John Knight.

Then, from 1995 until his death in early 1999, he mostly directed and produced movies on his own again, founding the production companies Butterfly Motion Pictures and Capital Film ( with seat in Los Angeles ).

Groningen — Capital city of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands, this city was held by a mixed force of Germans, stiffened with Dutch SS who felt compelled to fight to the death.

In 1813, nearly ten years after his death, John Quincy Adams said that the Presidency, the Capital and the Country had been governed by Bingham and his family connections.

On July 10, 2008, Maryland Governor Martin O ' Malley announced that Civiletti would serve as the Chairman of the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, setup to study the application of capital punishment in Maryland and make a recommendation on the abolition of the death penalty in Maryland.

The company continued to grow after his death and in 2002 was acquired by Whitney and Co LLC and Golden Gate Capital for USD 685 million, who took the company private again.