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Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by judicial process as punishment. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). Hence, a capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head. Common in virtually every society, excluding only those with state religious proscriptions against it until modern times, it is a matter of active controversy in various states and there is no consistency of position within political tendencies such as capitalist or communist or cultural regions, except in Western Europe where there is a general consensus that the practice is barbaric.[citation needed] In general, the latter position is more commonly found in the more advanced/developed provincial units within federal states that have the authority to legislate it and in the countries considered more advanced generally in terms of human development.