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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners. John Atherton (1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore [1] Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian [2] Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar. [3]
The death penalty was subsequently abolished in 1889 and only revived under Italian Fascism. Capital punishment was sanctioned in the codes of law of all the other pre-unitarian states, therefore after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1860, legislation was divided: the penal code of the former Kingdom of Sardinia, which contemplated ...
After the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Georgia resumed executions in 1983. The four-year break in executions caused by the coronavirus pandemic and related agreement ...
Article 284: Pillage (Death penalty abolished on 3 August 1992) Article 285: Using force against the population in an area of military operations (Death penalty abolished on 3 August 1992) Article 65: Treason (Death penalty abolished on 1 February 1997) Article 66: Espionage (Death penalty abolished on 1 February 1997)
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
For people of Italian nationality who were executed, see Category:Executed Italian people. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 ...
Danial Anthony Lucas, who was convicted of the crimes in 1999, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST at the state prison in Jackson.