[INTERESTING FACT]

The oldest recorded death sentence is contained in the Amherst papyri, dating to 1500 B.C., which listed Egyptian state trials. A teen aged male, convicted of "magic", was sentenced to kill himself by either poison or stabbing.

-[source] Charles Panati, Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody (Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1989).