Impaling, quartering, skinning, gassing, beheading, crucifying: When it comes to killing, people have let their imaginations run wild since the beginning of time. Ultra-brutal methods such as disemboweling or wheeling have (presumably) all but disappeared – but not the act of execution itself. The death penalty is still on the statute books in almost 80 countries around the world and is still carried out in a quarter of them.
Death from nitrogen suffocation
The United States of America is one of them. The Supreme Court was now called upon to make a fundamental ruling on the punishment: the judges had to decide whether nitrogen was permissible as a method of execution. Is she. No one has been killed with the gas so far, so human rights activists believe that it is not suitable for a “humane” death.
Japan is also one of the last industrialized countries where state executions still take place. A man who carried out an arson attack on an animation studio in 2019 has now been sentenced to death. 36 people died at that time.
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Sources: news agencies AFP and Reuters, Human Rights Watch, Human Dignity TrustBBC, Amnesty International, United Arab Emirates Penalty Code