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 ==Death Penalty==
-The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the Fourteenth Century B.C.'s Hittite Code; in the Seventh Century B.C.'s Draconian Code of Athens, which made death the only punishment for all crimes; and in the Fifth Century B.C.'s Roman Law of the Twelve Tablets. Death sentences were carried out by such means as crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement.
+The first written legal texts already know the death penalty. In the 18th century B.C., the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon provided it for 25 types of crime. In the 14th century B.C., the Hittite Code knew the death penalty, as did the 7th century Draconian Code of Athens and, in the 5th century B.C., the Roman Law of the Twelve Tablets. Death sentences were carried out by such means as crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement.
+There is a widespread belief that, over time, the death penalty has become more and more infrequent, and that one day soon it will be abolished all over the globe. The history of death penalty legislation shows quite a different picture, though. There have always been high and low tides of the death penalty, and there are many countries which - today - have it in their criminal codes, and make use of it, too, but which in earlier times already had abolished it (and, sometimes, had abolished it more than once).