Explore: Executions (roman Law)

criminals to execution. Under Xuanzong capital punishment was relatively infrequent, with only 24 executions in the year 730 and 58 executions in the year

restrained. Executions can be carried out with the condemned either standing or sitting. There is a tradition in some jurisdictions that such executions are carried

of executions is unknown. Other countries, like Myanmar and Libya, have conducted extrajudicial executions.   Maintain the death penalty in both law and

estimated to have amounted to a third of all executions for witchcraft in Germany, and a fourth of all executions of witchcraft in all Europe. The mass witch

form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals, usually lions or other big cats. This form of execution, which

Coleman, K. M. (2012). "Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments". Journal of Roman Studies. 80: 44–73. doi:10.2307/300280.

elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives during public executions. The animals were trained to kill victims immediately or to torture them

known as execution. These methods of capital punishment are currently legal in at least one country. Many historically recorded methods of execution include

Roman Empire in present day Germany between 1581 and 1593, and were perhaps the largest documented witch trial in history in view of the executions.

performing executions, with 34 states having performed executions since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. The methods of execution have varied