Capital punishment has, in the past, been practiced by most societies, as a punishment for criminals, and political or religious dissidents. Historically, the death penalty had been torturous and the criminals were publicly executed. The very first laws regarding the death penalty date back as far as the Eighteenth Century. This concept was developed in the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon. There were twenty-five crimes that ruled out as worthy of the death penalty. After this time the death penalty laws became prominent in many other codes of law; some even made death “the only punishment for all crimes”(“History of the Death”). Time went on and this execution was used widely until one man became ruler and decided that the death penalty