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Capital PunishmentEssay Preview: Capital PunishmentReport this essayThe first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon, this code allowed the death penalty for 25 different crimes. Capital Punishment was also part of the Fourteenth Century B.C.s Hittite Code; in the Seventh Century.