It has varied. It used to be beheading but in later times hanging was used.
Capital Punishment This is a major edit. The least used method of executions in the United States is the electric chair. The most "popular" method of execution is by lethal injection.
England's last execution for heresy and blasphemy was in 1697.
it is a method of execution.
Bo Dylan Moore
It was the chosen method of execution.
Guillotine
Feed them to the fierce animals.
Lethal injection is the execution method for states that have the death penalty.
Gas chambers were used as a method of execution for condemned prisoners in the United States beginning in the 1920s.
Hanging as a method of execution was abolished in the UK in 1965 for murder, and in 1973 for all other crimes. It was replaced by the method of execution by hanging.
The historical significance of the execution of Charles I of England is that it was a clear break with a tradition which went back to the beginnings of the Middle Ages.
Texas primarily uses lethal injection as the method of execution for individuals on death row. However, the state also allows for the use of alternative methods such as the electric chair for those who select it as their preferred method of execution.