Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically, the term capital (lit. "of the head", derived via the Latin capitalis from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading, but executions are carried out by many methods, including hanging, shooting, lethal injection, stoning, electrocution, and gassing.
Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, capital offences, or capital felonies, and vary depending on the jurisdiction, but commonly include serious crimes against a person, such as assassination, mass murder, aggravated rape (often child sexual abuse), terrorism, aircraft hijacking, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, along with crimes against the state such as attempting to overthrow government, treason, espionage, sedition, and piracy. Also, in some cases, acts of recidivism, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping, in addition to drug trafficking, drug dealing, and drug possession, are capital crimes or enhancements.
== By nation ==
=== Totem Empire ===
Crimes committed in the Totem Empire that warrant the death penalty are listed in the Constitution of the First Totem Empire, "The death penalty is to only be used in the most serious of crimes, such as, planned out mass genocide, rape, child endangerment, and child molestation. The penalty is regulated by the Imperial Court of Justice."
=== Kingdom of Arthintas ===
Members sign a contract once joining Arthintas, stating that the Government of the Kingdom of Arthintas can punish them however they want for any crime.
Category:Criminal Law