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Death penalty for murder (over two victims), aggravated murder, arson resulting in death, piracy, terrorism, kidnapping resulting in death, rape resulting in death, rebellion, drug trafficking, conspiracy with foreign countries, robbery-homicide, recidivist violent robbery and treason. [323]
Sierra Leone abolished the death penalty: 17:51, 11 June 2018: 940 × 477 (1.35 MB) Forthrunner: Update according to Amnesty International: 20:36, 16 October 2016: 940 × 477 (1.36 MB) Turnless: The death penalty was never abolished by the constitutional court of Russia. They only extended the moratorium. 04:52, 8 August 2016: 940 × 477 (1.36 ...
Vector map from File:BlankMap-World6.svg; data from Death penalty – abolitionist-and-retentionist-countries by Amnesty International, last check 21st July 2012. Author: W like wiki: Permission (Reusing this file)
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.
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The Death Penalty Abolition Act was published in the government gazette on Tuesday after Mnangagwa signed it into law. ... Globally, 113 countries, including 24 in Africa, have fully abolished the ...
Last year, four countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes, as Amnesty International noted in a recent report: Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic.
Since World War II, there has been a trend toward abolishing the death penalty. 54 countries retain the death penalty in active use, 112 countries have abolished capital punishment altogether, 7 have done so for all offences except under special circumstances, and 22 more have abolished it in practice because they have not used it for at least ...