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Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]
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.
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which Only executed 1 prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [40] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
The last non-military execution in Mexico was in June 1957 in the State of Sonora, where two men charged with child rape and murder were executed by firing squad, and the last military execution was in 1961, [1] with the civil death penalty being abolished in 1976 and the military death penalty in 2005. The next list is representative and ...
Shooting is the primary method of execution in the United Arab Emirates. [20] Shooting is the primary method of execution in Yemen. [21] Shooting is used in Saudi Arabia, but beheadings are more common. Before 2011, Vietnam used firing squad for execution. Since 2011, Vietnam has used lethal injection as the main form of death penalty.
The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006. [15] While the death penalty still exists in the Maldives and Guatemala, no executions have been carried out there since 1954 and 2000 respectively. [16] Taiwan has never actually used the method, instead carrying out all executions by single gunshot. [17] The US and China are the two biggest ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled in 1983 that the military death penalty was unconstitutional, and after new standards intended to rectify the Armed Forces Court of Appeals' objections, the military death penalty was reinstated by an executive order of President Ronald Reagan the following year. [1]