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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Pakistan. Although there have been numerous amendments to the Constitution, there is yet to be a provision prohibiting the death penalty as a punitive remedy. [1] [2] A moratorium on executions was imposed in 2008. No executions occurred from 2009 to 2011, with 1 in 2012 and 0 in 2013. [3]
In it, Beccaria put forth some of the first modern arguments against the death penalty. It was also the first full work of penology, advocating reform of the criminal law system. The book was the first full-scale work to tackle criminal reform and to suggest that criminal justice should conform to rational principles.
Death penalty for waging war against the state, [132] prostitution, drug trafficking, treason, perjury in a capital case causing wrongful execution, espionage, acts that may endanger the independence or unity of the state, murder, armed robbery, abetting the suicide of an individual unable to give legal consent, terrorism, rape and incest ...
The crime of "robbery and civil disturbance against Islam" inside a Muslim state is referred to in Quran 5:33: [7] Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread mischief in the land is death, crucifixion, cutting off their hands and feet on opposite sides, or exile from the land.
The Pakistan Penal Code outlaws blasphemy (Urdu: قانون ناموس رسالت) against any recognized religion, with punishments ranging from a fine to the death penalty. According to various human rights organizations, Pakistan's blasphemy laws have been used to persecute religious minorities and settle personal rivalries, frequently ...
Recalling also the resolutions on the question of the death penalty adopted over the past decade by the Commission on Human Rights in all consecutive sessions, the last being its resolution 2005/59 of 20 April 2005, [d] in which the Commission called upon states that still maintain the death penalty to abolish it completely and, in the meantime ...
The former Afghan government took important steps away from the use of the death penalty, but they have continued with the Taliban returning to power in August 2021. [4] [5] Some executions have been recently condemned by the United Nations. UN experts have called on Afghan authorities "to halt immediately all forms of torturous, cruel, and ...
2. The Death Penalty Will Not Discourage Crime (1764) Cesare Beccaria: Excerpt from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. 3. Society Must Retain the Death Penalty for Murder (1868) John Stuart Mill: Excerpt from "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment," in Hansard's Parliamentary Debate. 4. The Death Penalty Is State-Sanctioned Murder (1872 ...