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 CapitalConvictionIncarceratedCorporal punishment is another term for the death penalty. This is a form of punishment in which the state takes the away the life of an individual who has been convicted of a specific crime. This is a serious punishment which is usually reserved for truly heinous crimes, such as  petty theftmurderembezzlementdivorce. It is not a practice which is used as a method of punishment in the  UKUAEDominican RepublicUS; however, it was once used in this country as a method of punishment for serious crimes such as murder. It is   practisedillegallegalused in the United Kingdom – and has been since 1998. In the countries in which it is used, there are a variety of different methods of execution. For example, the favoured option in the American states which still have the death penalty is the method of death by  poisoningfiring squadlethal injectionstoning, which is the administering of a cocktail of drugs designed to sedate the prisoner, paralyse their limbs and finally stop the heart. This is considered by some to be the most humane method of administering the death penalty. The other option for the death penalty in the US is death by  electric chairfiring squadstoningradioactive chair, whereby the individual is strapped to a chair and electric currents are administered, which will kill the inmate. This is considered to be more painful than the lethal injection and, therefore, generally, those facing the death penalty will choose to be killed by lethal injection. Countries other than the US, such as the UAE, are known to use other methods – including stoning, which is the throwing of stones at an individual until death. It has religious links to some faiths, such as  WiccaBuddhismHinduismIslam, in which some of the Hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad appear to prescribe the use of stoning for certain situations such as adultery. There is a large debate regarding whether or not the death penalty can be considered to be  uprightupstandingmorallegal as many argue that the risk of the conviction and killing of the  lower classguiltyinnocentinsane is too high. Other issues include how  cleverhumaneeffectivehelpful the death penalty is.