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Country Last execution date Name Crime Method C Abkhazia: never used: A Albania: 29 June 1995 [citation needed] murder hanging: A Andorra: 18 October 1943 [154] [155] Pere Areny murder: firing squad: A Armenia: 30 August 1991 [154] unnamed man murder: single firearm: A Austria: 24 March 1950 [154] Johann Trnka: murder: hanging: A Azerbaijan ...
Of all present European countries, San Marino, Portugal and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment; Romania banned it even earlier in 1864, but it was much later reintroduced from 1936 to 1990 during the dictatorial and communist eras; in Italy the nationwide ban on the death penalty dates from 1889 (capital punishment had ...
People executed for treason by country (48 C) A. People executed by Afghanistan (4 C) People executed by Albania (3 C, 1 P) ... This list may not reflect recent ...
Japan has not executed juvenile criminals after August 1997, when they executed Norio Nagayama, a spree killer who had been convicted of shooting four people dead in the late 1960s. Nagayama's case created the eponymously named Nagayama standards , which take into account factors such as the number of victims, brutality and social impact of the ...
Used as punishment for high treason in the Ancien régime; also used by several others countries at various points in history. Drowning: Execution by drowning is attested very early in history, by a large variety of cultures, and as the method of execution for many different offences. Drawing and quartering: English method of execution for high ...
The only country in Europe that continues to execute in the 21st century is Belarus (last execution done in 2022). [6] No member of the Council of Europe has carried out executions in the 21st century. The last execution on the present day territory of the Council of Europe took place in 1997 in Ukraine. [7] [8]
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Robert David Bennett (1932) last execution in Australia for a crime other than murder; Rainey Bethea (1936) last public execution in the United States; Jacques Chausson (1661) attempted homosexual rape of a young nobleman; Caryl Chessman (1960) Richard Cornish (1625) homosexual rape of an endentured servant; Carlo Fantom (1643) Thomas Knapton ...