Mr. Cooley asked jurors to consider their individual responsibility for imposing the death penalty, recalling that "in ancient times execution was a participatory activity".
Hanging was one of the modes of execution under ancient Roman law, and it was subsequently derived by the Anglo-Saxons from their Germanic ancestors.
Mommsen, for example, notes that the monkey hardly can have been an ancient element in the execution ritual.
Executions in ancient China were carried out by many painful methods, such as sawing the condemned in half, flaying him while still alive, and boiling.
Isis captured the city from government forces in May 2015, and progressively damaged its Roman-era ruins, staging mass executions in the ancient amphitheater.
He short-circuits one day on the Boston subway, losing his memory temporarily, and his search for a cure for his mysterious illness unfolds against a parallel narrative involving the execution of Socrates in ancient Greece.
He said the jihadis carried out executions in Palmyra's ancient theatre, destroyed the famous Lion of Al-lāt Al-lāty and transformed the museum into a prison and a courtroom.
Burning at the stake, a method of execution practiced in Babylonia and ancient Israel and later adopted in Europe and North America.
'Consider how great civilisations fall, the marks of their last days.' He cites ancient Rome and 'the nature of public execution'.
This execution was invented by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who is popularly known as the father of logic.
