List of methods of capital punishment

This is a list of methods of capital punishment, also known as execution.

Many of the former methods combine execution with torture, often intending to make a spectacle of pain and suffering with overtones of sadism, cruelty, intimidation, and dehumanisation, at times aimed at attempting to deter the commission of offences.

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