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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.
Capital Punishment was abolished for political crimes in 1852, civil crimes in 1867 and war crimes in 1911. [372] In 1916, capital punishment was reinstated only for military offenses that occurred in a war against a foreign country and in the theater of war. [373] Capital punishment was completely abolished again in 1976. [374] Romania: 1989 ...
Iran, despite its ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, was the world's largest executioner of juvenile offenders, for which it has been the subject of broad international condemnation; the country's record is the focus of the Stop Child Executions Campaign. But on 10 ...
The United States ranks among the top five countries in the world with the most executions in 2023, according to a new report from Amnesty International.. The US carried out 24 death sentences ...
Category: Child murder by country. 3 languages. ... Child murder in the State of Palestine (2 C, 34 P) Child murder in Sweden (1 C, ...
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 ...
The most severe punishment, given for capital offenses, was the nine familial exterminations (zú zhū (族誅), literally "family execution", and miè zú (灭族/滅族)), implemented by tyrannical rulers. This punishment entailed the execution of all the close and extended kin of the individual, categorized into nine groups: four generations ...
People who were executed as children (before age 18 or the age of majority in the jurisdiction). People executed as adults for crimes committed as children should be placed in Category:Executed juvenile offenders.