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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.
In 2005, Mexico abolished the death penalty; in 2009 Argentina abolished it. ... Australia abolished the death penalty completely in 1985. Human Development Index.
Sentence increased to the death penalty on 6 September 2006. Sentence reduced to life imprisonment in March 2008. [19] Scott Rush: Chelmer, Queensland: Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: 15 December 2024: Sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 February 2006. [17] Sentence increased to the death penalty on 6 September 2006.
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 ...
A Mexican execution by firing squad in 1916. There is significant history of abolitionism in Mexico, dating back to the 19th century. Following the Plan of Ayutla, the 1857 constitution was drafted, which specifically outlawed the death penalty for political crimes, and allowed abolition for ordinary crimes in the future.
According to the 2016 Australian Census, 4,872 Mexican people resided in Australia. Mexicans are concentrated in New South Wales with the population of 1,703 followed by Victoria (1,478), Queensland (761) and Western Australia (359). [3] The first Mexican person recorded in Australia was a male living in Tasmania in 1881.
C. Capital punishment in Cambodia; Capital punishment in Cameroon; Capital punishment in Cape Verde; Capital punishment in the Central African Republic
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]