Capital Punishment

Capital punishment, alternatively called "The Death Penalty" is the legal practice of killing an individual as punishment for a crime or offense. A death sentence is the order to execute an individual, while the act of killing them is called an execution. Crimes that carry with them a death sentence are often called "capital crimes", though the specific crime which warrants the death penalty changes by jurisdiction.

According to the Union of Nations, capital punishment is most commonly practiced in Korasha, though it is currently practiced on every continent in the world, save Avanor. Crimes around the world which warrant capital punishment include: murder, terrorist acts, sedition or treason, sexual violence, drug trafficking, and genocide or war crimes. Though this sentence can be carried out in a number of ways, the most common method of execution throughout the world is hanging, though other methods include: decapitation, shooting, electrocution, and gassing.

This method of punishment is rather controversial, especially in North Larania and Avanor - while all Avanoran nations have outlawed the practice completely, with the last execution in Avanor being the execution of Ava Liddle in Endsbury, Gelenia for the crime of murder in 1901, though Novogaard became the last person to end the practice of executions by placing a legal moratorium on the act in 1910, and while the punishment is still legally valid, the legal ban on any method of execution makes enforcing the punishment impossible. Hygessivini is the only nation in the world which still practices capital punishment, as President Mulani brought back the punishment in 1923.