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  2. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    An Ancient Persian method of execution in which the condemned was placed in between two boats, force-fed a mixture of milk and honey, and left floating in a stagnant pond. The victim would then suffer from severe diarrhoea, which would attract insects that would burrow and nest in the victim, eventually causing death from sepsis .

  3. Category:Execution methods - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Execution methods" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. List of methods of torture - Wikipedia

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    Mock execution; Forced nudity; Seclusion; Pharmacological torture; Exploitation of phobias; e.g., mock execution, leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders; Sensory deprivation; Sensory overload; Sleep deprivation; Solitary confinement / isolation; Threat of severe disfigurement; Tickle torture; Waterboarding; White room torture [1]

  5. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which Only executed 1 prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [38] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.

  6. Capital punishment by the United States federal government

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    The method of execution of federal prisoners for offenses under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is that of the state in which the conviction took place. If the state has no death penalty, the judge must select a state with the death penalty for carrying out the execution. [35]

  7. What is nitrogen hypoxia? Alabama’s untested execution method ...

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    When a prisoner challenges a method of execution, the state forces them to name an alternative. So Smith filed a lawsuit requesting he be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, one of three legal ...

  8. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]

  9. List of people executed by the United States federal government

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    Date of execution Method Victim(s) President 1 Timothy James McVeigh: White 33 M June 11, 2001 Lethal injection: 8 federal law enforcement officers [a] George W. Bush: 2 Juan Raul Garza: Hispanic 44 M June 19, 2001 Thomas Albert Rumbo, Gilberto Matos, and Erasmo De La Fuente [b] 3 Louis Jones Jr. Black 53 M March 18, 2003 U.S. Army Private ...