In the 7th century BC, the ancient Athenian legal system used draconian laws that set the death penalty as punishment for all crimes. the condemned are burned alive, crucified, impaled and drowned for those found guilty (Kudlac, 2007). The Draco Laws of ancient Athens were soon found to be ruthless in applying such merciless punishments to a wide variety of offenses, so changes to the death penalty would soon be implemented. In the 18th century BC, King Hammurabi of Babylon established a formal code that provided for the death penalty for twenty-five crimes that ironically did not include murder (Newbold, 1999). This has been recognized as one of the first recorded codes of law that evolved and shaped our principles of authority that govern the world today (Charpin and Todd, 2010). Cultural factors have also led to historical shifts toward death