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  1. Capital punishment is punishment by death. 
  2. Capital punishment is retained in around 92
  3. countries and territories, including 37
  4. states in the USA, China, and Islamic 
  5. countries. It was abolished in the UK in 
  6. 1965 for all crimes except treason. Methods
  7. of execution include electrocution, lethal
  8. gas, HANGING, shooting, lethal injection,
  9. garrotting, and decapitation.
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  11. Subject by: Russell Webb
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