DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)

PRE-COLUMBIAN PEOPLES

Pre-Columbian peoples (Maya, Aztecans, Incas) were original of central America; there are still now few Maya communities in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador. These communities started developing in the XVI century b.C. and finished in the XVII century a.D., when they were destroyed by the Spanish. In pre-Columbian communities were no prisons; the robbery was punished with slavery and the murder with death, if the cuplrit couldn't indemnify the victims; the moral code didn't differentiate between intentional and unintentional murder. Also the adultery, considerated a crime against the ownership, was punished with the death: the culprit was consigned to the injured hisband, who would kill him throwing a big stone on his head.