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List of methods of capital punishment

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Source revisionAug 18, 2026
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This is a list of methods of capital punishment, also known as execution.

Current methods

These well-known and notable methods of capital punishment are currently legal in at least one country.

Former methods

Many historically recorded methods of execution include 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. Some of these methods may still be in practice by terrorist groups.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of methods of capital punishment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.