* Capital punishment, the sentence of death

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.

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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