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History Of The Death Penalty

(A) - Early Forms of the Death Penalty
Ancient China - First established death penalty laws
18th century BCE - Code of king Hammurabi of Babylon - Earliest form of unified system of justice. Death penalty for 25 crimes, including an “eye for an Eye”
16th century BCE - Egypt - first historically recorded death sentence (a man was accused of using magic)
14th century BCE - Hittite code - also prescribed the death penalty
621 BCE - Draconian code of Athens - ‘the death penalty applied for a particularly wide range of crimes”.
5th century BCE - Roman law of the twelve tables includes the death penalty
3rd century BCE - Jews recorded as using four death penalty methods including: Stoning, Hanging, Beheading, and burning.
30 BCE - Sanhedrin Jewish Courts effectively abolish capital punishment, saying that it is only fitting in finality for g-d
29 AD - crucifixion of jesus - most infamous execution in history
330 AD - Emperor Constantine I (Constantine the Great) abolishes crucifixion and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire
438 AD - Code of Theodosius - made more then 80 crimes punishable by death
747 AD - Emperor Taizong of Tang (China) - abolished the death penalty. Up till then there were nearly 40 executions a year.
818 AD - Emperor Saga of Japan abolishes the death penalty
Common methods for the early death penalties included: stoning, hanging, beheading, crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, impalement, boiling, and quartering.

(B) - Middle ages and the renaissance times (Plus)
Around 900 AD - Ling Chi (Slow Slicing), or death by a thousand cuts, was implemented in china. It’s a method in which they would make small paper cut like incisions, until the patient would die due to a loss of blood.
10th century - Hanging becomes the most common method of killing in Britain.
11th century - William the conqueror - Banned hanging and...