The death sentence has been around before the Roman Empire, through time the rules and methods. The methods changed from being boiled and stoned to death to being decapitated, hanged, and burned alive at the stake.
Then to being shot by squad, electrified by electric chair and the lethal ejection. The first written set of laws that states the punishment with the offence was the Hammurabi Code. The code mostly stated that the offender will revise the same treatment as his or her victim like the most known an eye for an aye. For example If the criminal had committed murder then his or her punishment would be death. most of the executions were made public so the people would know what will happen if they made the same crime. Even though it was made publicly there was still allot of crime. Now the executions are made in private in a designated building in a chamber with a window where some people could see.
Then to being shot by squad, electrified by electric chair and the lethal ejection. The first written set of laws that states the punishment with the offence was the Hammurabi Code. The code mostly stated that the offender will revise the same treatment as his or her victim like the most known an eye for an aye. For example If the criminal had committed murder then his or her punishment would be death. most of the executions were made public so the people would know what will happen if they made the same crime. Even though it was made publicly there was still allot of crime. Now the executions are made in private in a designated building in a chamber with a window where some people could see.