A sentence to death, a punishment as old as time. In the United States, it exists as some sort of mob-rule vengeance palliative, justified by the "eye for an eye" Old Testament ethos. But there are laws in the States that allow for execution even when vengeance-for-murder isn't involved - e.g., punishment can be meted out to a businessman (called a "drug kingpin"), a "traitor" (remember the Rosenbergs?), or an unwanted fetus. America®: makers of collateral damage, home and abroad.