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Death penalty for homosexuality, sodomy, [113] apostasy [114] (no recorded executions), blasphemy, [115] adultery, murder, aggravated murder, terrorism, torture, rape, armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, arson, accomplice to a death-eligible crime, assaulting a judge or public official in the course of his duties resulting in his death ...
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.
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 ...
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...
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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) [38] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
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 ...
Map of death penalty People who study comparative criminal justice study different forms and use of punishment across societies, including capital punishment . Fifty-nine countries retain the death penalty as reported in 2007. [ 5 ]