Bodde and Morris (1973, pp. 77–78), list the five main categories of punishment demanded by the Qing code: light bamboo caning, heavy bamboo caning, penal servitude, life or military exile, and death. The death penalty was carried out in five ways: strangulation after judicial review, dec...
In post-colonial India the female foeticide, a practice evolved from customary female infanticide of pre-colonial and colonial period, committed though in separate incidents, has made it almost a unified wave of mass murder. It does not fulfil the widely accepted existing definition of genocide but...
[5] See, for example, California Penal Code 187 PC. [6] See California Penal Code 189(b) PC. [7] See, for example, Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-103(1)(b). [8] See People v. Jones, 56 Cal.App.5th 474 (2020). [9] California Penal Code 190 PC. [10] Same. [11] Califor...