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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment...

In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible...

Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, romanized: Prestupleniye i nakazaniye...

Capital punishment in India is a legal penalty for some crimes under the country's main substantive penal legislation, the Indian Penal Code, as well as...

Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three...

Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes...

Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime. As opposed to revenge, retribution—and...

frequently unresolved issues concerning the identity, culpability, and punishment of the perpetrators of these killings and memorial museums often play an...

question of more serious punishment. "Invincible ignorance excuses from all culpability. An action committed in ignorance of the law prohibiting it, or of the...

In capital punishment, a volunteer is a prisoner who wishes to be sentenced to death. Often, volunteers will waive all appeals in an attempt to expedite...

requirements alongside the culpable homicide offence elements. Murder attracts a more serious form of punishment than culpable homicide, with section 300(a)...

Act), such as culpable homicide not amounting to murder, attempted murder (if hurt was caused), kidnapping by ransom, criminal breach of trust by a public...

Culpable and reckless conduct is a common law crime in Scottish Law. Culpable and Reckless Conduct has no specific definition but deals with culpable...

changing punishments to fit the circumstances subjectively; they are required to impose a predetermined punishment regardless of individual culpability, extenuating...

responsibility is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies. Collective responsibility in the form of collective punishment is often used as a disciplinary...

grounds of mercy, acquitted of any culpable wrongdoings. A long struggle between the Sikh community and Islamic rulers resulted in execution of Sikhs....

Punishments which was to form the basis of penology based on the relative standard of culpability. As a result, Jeremy Bentham developed the idea of the...

concurrence). Negligence shows the least level of culpability, intention being the most serious, and recklessness being of intermediate seriousness, overlapping...

group. Homicide – the act of killing of a person (Latin: homo "man"). Justifiable homicide – a defense to culpable homicide (criminal or negligent homicide)...

retributive). The culpability principle is often used in deciding the punishment of offenders. However, there are large numbers of punishments handed down which...