The brief monograph at hand deals with the issue Death Penalty from a
legal history standpoint. Here, after some introductory remarks on
pre-state societies (hunters and gatherers), the following historic eras
are subject matter: The Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian precursors,
Germanic Law, the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages. Target groups of
this publication particularly are criminal lawyers, legal historians and
general historians, self-evidently also students of such academic
subjects.