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Show CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS OF OLD. IH Oldest Death Sentence Extant la M Found In Egypt Tho oldest doith sentence extant Is H found lu the Amherst papyri contain- H lug tho trials of stato criminals In Egypt, about 1,300 B. C. Tho crlml- 'H nal In this caso was found guilty of H magic, which his Judges stato "was -H worthy of death, which ho carried out, ' and ho killed himself" nppareutly by H stabbing, as In the Japanese "hnrl- M karl," which Is also of vory ancient .H origlu. Amongst less civilized pco- 'H pics, diowuliig would seem to havo iH been the earliest method of legal pun- i ishment, tor, nbout 450 B. C, the- -""bbbH Britons killed their criminals by H throwing them Into a quagmlro. Of H other capital punlshmonts, tho oldest IbbbH recorded comes from Chaldea, whoro bbbH it was enacted, somo six thousand B years ago, that when anyono maimed: .H a slave, "the hand that thus offended , should pay him each day a measure- |