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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.
This measure was implemented by the legislative decree 22/48 of January 22, 1948 (provision of coordination as a consequence of the abolishment of capital punishment). Thus, the death penalty remained in force in Italy in cases covered by the military penal code for wartime (though no execution ever took place) until law 589/94 of October 13 ...
Francisco (1876) last execution in Brazil (former Empire of Brazil) Sidney Harry Fox (1930) Ronnie Lee Gardner (2010) Micheal Anak Garing (2019) Juan Garza (2001) Nirmal Jibon Ghosh (1934) Gary Gilmore (1977) first post-Gregg execution in Utah and in the United States; Barbara Graham (1955) John Grant (2021) Jimmy Lee Gray (1983) first post ...
The Jewish community in Rome is likely one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world, existing from classical times until today. [ 2 ] Most certainly, it is known that in 139 BCE, Simon Maccabeus sent a Hasmonean embassy to Rome in order to strengthen his alliance with the Roman Republic against the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom ...
In Egypt, it is believed that at least 1,700 people were executed under the death penalty, and 1,413 death sentences alone were issued between 2007 and 2014. [75] Since the beginning of 2015, there have been reports of at least 354 death sentences carried out; however, numbers are not totally reliable due to the government's secrecy.
16 Brescians executed by Austrian Army [25] Cignoli family massacre 20 May 1859 Torricella Verzate: 9 Austrian Army Austrian troops under Karl von Urban execute 9 civilians. [26] Bronte riots 2 August 1860 Bronte: 21 Red Shirts 16 people killed in the riots, 5 sentenced to death as rioters by a drumhead court [27] [28] Montefalcione massacre
People executed by Italy by hanging (11 P) T. People executed for treason against Italy (1 C, ...
Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. People who were threatened with death and never jailed. People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of stoning.