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in the eighteenth century BC, in the code of Hammurabi, king of Babylon, in which he codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. The death penalty was also part of the fourteenth century BC Hittite code, of the seventh century BC Draconian Code of Athens, which made death the sole penalty for all crimes, and in the fifth century BC Roman law of the twelve tablets. Death sentences were carried out, for example, by crucifixion, drowning, manslaughter, by burning alive, and by impalement.