What are the methods of executing death penalty prisoners in the world?

The main forms of execution of the death penalty in countries all over the world are shooting, hanging, beheading, stoning and lethal injection.

1. shoot (shoot)

shoot means to execute with a gun, which is the execution of the death penalty. Current countries or regions: Chinese mainland (in practice, the method of lethal injection has generally been changed), Taiwan Province, China, Utah, Oklahoma (only when venom injection is unconstitutional), Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Belarus and Indonesia.

2. Hanging

can be divided into hanging and strangulation. Hanging, commonly known as hanging, refers to the method of hanging a person's neck in mid-air with a rope and dying. Strangulation refers to the method of strangling a person with a rope to make him die. The enforcement countries are Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Japan, Singapore and so on.

3. decapitation

the principle of decapitation is to cut the neck, that is, to separate the head from the trunk. China replaced beheading by shooting in 195, and France abolished the death penalty (at least beheading) in 1981. At present, only some Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, use beheading as one of the legal ways to execute prisoners. Although legal, it is not commonly used.

4. stoning

stoning is a kind of execution method of death by blunt attack, that is, burying in sand and stoning to death. Usually, the male parts below the waist and the female parts below the chest are buried in sand, and the torturer repeatedly throws stones at the victim.

stoning is a kind of Islamic law, which is generally regarded as too cruel in the international community, so some more humane death sentences are usually used. Countries that still have stoning include Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Brunei, which have not abandoned Islamic criminal law.

5. Injection of death penalty

Injection of death penalty, or injection of poison or lethal injection is the process of instantly killing the injected object by injecting enough lethal doses of drugs (usually barbiturates, muscle relaxants and chlorides). Mainly used for execution of death penalty.

China is the second country in the world to formally adopt the death penalty by drug injection after the United States. The People's Republic of China began to use this method in 1997, Guatemala in 1998, the Philippines (which has abolished the death penalty system) in 1999 and Thailand in 23.

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