Beheading, shooting and… this is how death penalty is given in other countries!

There is a demand to hang the culprits in the Kolkata rape and murder case. The West Bengal government has also called a two-day special session of the assembly, in which a bill to give death penalty to the rape convicts will be presented. After the West Bengal government’s bill, the death penalty is in discussion. Actually, there has been a lot of opposition to capital punishment in India and many countries and many countries have now abolished it.

In such a situation, let us know what is the situation regarding death penalty in the world and in what ways people are being given death penalty. In India, death penalty is often given through hanging, in many countries there are provisions for giving death from shooting to gas chamber. So let us know about them…

What is the situation of death penalty in the world?

According to a BBC report, currently there is a provision of death penalty in 55 countries. Out of these, there are 9 countries where this punishment is given only in case of very serious crimes. Now many countries are continuously moving away from death penalty and there is a lot of demand for it in India too. Let us tell you that there are 112 countries in the world where there is no provision of capital punishment, which were only 48 in 1991.

Which countries have the most death penalties?

According to the report, the highest capital punishment is given in China. If we look at the record of the year 2022, more than 1000 people were given death penalty in China. After this, about 576 people were given death penalty in Iran, about 196 in Saudi Arabia, about 24 in Egypt, 18 in America. In India too, the figures of hanging are continuously decreasing.

In what ways is punishment given?

In India and many other countries, hanging is the common method for death penalty. In this punishment, the convict is hanged with a rope tied around his neck and the person dies due to suffocation. In India, there are many rules regarding hanging, which are to be followed before a person is hanged. Apart from this, in other countries, death penalty is given by injecting or shooting.

In Saudi Arabia, the punishment of death by beheading is also quite common. In a case in America, a person was sentenced to death through nitrogen gas, which was opposed a lot. It was told that the medicines given in injections have become difficult to get now, due to which the person was sentenced to death through nitrogen gas chamber.