Death Penalty- Methods of Execution: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Death penalty is the highest degree of punishment that is awarded by any society across the world. Death penalty or capital punishment is the ultimate punishment given by the laws of the Nations which still practice it for the most serious offences (capital offences) against humanity. In different parts of the world various methods of execution have been used since time immemorial, some are traditional methods and a few fall under the modern methods for execution of death penalty. This paper is a study to analyze various methods of execution and tries to find out the easiest and least painful method to award death. The researcher has used analytical methodology to analyze the secondary data collected through different resources i.e. from books and different websites.