SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Lethal Injection, Execution By Firing Squad
13 Dec 2016
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Commit a crime and you may wind up behind bars. Today we look at punishment (penalties inflicted by authorities) Punishment arrives with agriculture reaches peak in agrarian societies. Europe in 1400 10 per 100,000 executed annually. Today most european countries have no death penalties. In the us today, this rate of execution would translate to 320,000 a year. But is actually 30/year (cid:1005)4(cid:1004)(cid:1004) europe"s rate was (cid:1005)(cid:1004),(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)x higher. Death penalty remained frequent and extremely painful. 1775: a man who tried to assassinate king luis xv in paris. Had flesh torn away with red hot pincers. Hand he tried to kill with was burned with sulfur and molten wax. 4 limbs tied to horses and pulled apart. Over time, punishment has become less physically painful evolution of the death penalty. Lethal injection now under challenge as being too painful. In modern society, death penalty either disappears (europe) or nearly disappears (18 us states have abolished the use of)
