Supporters argue that African Americans are more likely to commit murders than whites, and that their victims are more often African Americans themselves, so racial issues cut in both directions. .
In the Philippines, a law was passed in 1993 re-imposing the death penalty after its abolition. Since 1994, 995 Filipinos have been sentenced to death. Three more die, 1,000 more await execution in the deadly lottery resulting from the Philippines' hapless war on crime. After becoming the first country in Asia to abolish the death penalty by then President Corazon Aquino in 1987, the Philippines became one of the few anywhere to bring it back. But so far, many wonder whether Manila has the judicial maturity to manage life and death decisions. According to the anti-death penalty advocates most people who were sentenced to death are poor people. Seven people have been executed recently, three for rape.
It is reported that over a thousand convicts are on the death row pending presidential executions with the possibility that some would be pardoned while others executed.
In a number of other Asian countries the clamor for the introduction of the death sentence is gathering momentum given the spiraling of grave violence in many societies. The often quoted arguments are that they act as deterrents. Besides, the criminals are found to be "dangerous" for the society and as such they need to be eliminated that such arguments need to be examined within a comprehensive framework.
II. Different Methods of Execution.
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Burning at the Stake.
Burning at the stake was a popular death sentence and means of torture, used mostly for heretics, witches, and suspicious women. Burning dates back to the Christian era, where, in 643, an edict declared it illegal to burn witches. .
However, the increased persecution of witches throughout the centuries resulted in millions of women being burned at the stake. The first major witch-hunt occurred in Switzerland in 1427.
