{"slug": "capital-punishment", "label": "Capital punishment", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8454", "qid": "Q8454", "description": "legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [-249, 1999], "span_label": ["250 BCE", "1999 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "roman-consul", "label": "Roman consul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saxons", "label": "Saxons", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saxon-wars", "label": "Saxon Wars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-saxony", "label": "Old Saxony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "widukind", "label": "Widukind", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus", "label": "Augustus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "siege", "label": "Siege", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicyon", "label": "Sicyon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "piacenza", "label": "Piacenza", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "harun-al-rashid", "label": "Harun al-Rashid", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "buffalo-new-york", "label": "Buffalo, New York", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -249, "year_label": "250 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Marcus Atilius Regulus, Roman general and consul (executed)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278897656#Deaths", "title": "250 BC", "revid": 1278897656, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -39, "year_label": "40 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Siege of Perusia: trying a last attempt to break the siege, which fails; Lucius Antonius surrenders to Octavian. 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Meanwhile Widukind builds up rebel strength in northern Saxony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753540#Europe", "title": "780", "revid": 1364753540, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 803, "year_label": "803 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Caliph Harun al-Rashid has his friend and vizier (secretary) Ja'far ibn Yahya beheaded, The surviving members of the influential Barmakid family (Jafar's family) are imprisoned on the orders of Harun, and their property is confiscated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848789#Abbasid_Caliphate", "title": "803", "revid": 1340848789, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Caliphate"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#August", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Leon Czolgosz is executed in the electric chair for the assassination of William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#October", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. 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