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There are several types of capital punishment discussed in the document including beheading, electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, lethal injection, shooting, and ling chi or slow slicing. Historically, methods such as beheading, hanging, and slow slicing were used, while more modern approaches include the electric chair, gas chamber, and lethal injection.
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- 1. Types of death penality
- 2. • Beheading (French anarchist Auguste Vaillant just before being guillotined in 1894)
- 4. Gas chamber
- 5. Hanging • Execution of German war criminal Franz Strasser at Landsberg Prison on 2 January 1946
- 7. shooting
- 8. Slow slicing Ling Chi – execution by slow slicing – in Beijing around 1910.