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{{LE|E8AA30|DZA|{{sort|1993-08|August 1993}}<ref>[http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=10001394 "Algeria's laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes"], 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.</ref>|seven unnamed [[Islamic terrorism|Islamic terrorists]]|[[terrorism]]|[[firing squad]]}} |
{{LE|E8AA30|DZA|{{sort|1993-08|August 1993}}<ref>[http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=10001394 "Algeria's laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes"], 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.</ref>|seven unnamed [[Islamic terrorism|Islamic terrorists]]|[[terrorism]]|[[firing squad]]}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|AGO|{{sort|0000-00-00|never used}}<ref name = hood>Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle (2008, 4th ed.). ''The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-922847-7}}) app. 1.</ref>|||}} |
{{LE|3F9BBB|AGO|{{sort|0000-00-00|never used}}<ref name = hood>Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle (2008, 4th ed.). ''The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-922847-7}}) app. 1.</ref>|||}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|BEN|{{sort|1987-09-23|23 September 1987}}<ref name |
{{LE|3F9BBB|BEN|{{sort|1987-09-23|23 September 1987}}<ref name=westafrica>[[Amnesty International]], [https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR05/003/2003/en/dom-AFR050032003en.html "West Africa: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118000134/http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR05/003/2003/en/dom-AFR050032003en.html |date=2014-11-18 }}, 2003-10-10, amnesty.org, accessed 2008-08-08.</ref>||[[murder]]|}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|Bophuthatswana|{{sort|1990-12-13|13 December 1990}}<ref name = commonwealth/><ref>[[Amnesty International]], [http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/Index/FRAACT530011991?open&of=FRA-HUN "Bulletin Peine de Mort: Résumé des événements relatifs à la peine de mort et initiatives en vue de son abolition partout dans le monde"], 1991-02-01, accessed 2008-08-12.</ref>|[[Alpheus Sekoboane]]|[[murder]]|[[hanging]]}} |
{{LE|3F9BBB|Bophuthatswana|{{sort|1990-12-13|13 December 1990}}<ref name = commonwealth/><ref>[[Amnesty International]], [http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/Index/FRAACT530011991?open&of=FRA-HUN "Bulletin Peine de Mort: Résumé des événements relatifs à la peine de mort et initiatives en vue de son abolition partout dans le monde"], 1991-02-01, accessed 2008-08-12.</ref>|[[Alpheus Sekoboane]]|[[murder]]|[[hanging]]}} |
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{{LE|CC7862|BWA|{{sort|2016-05-25|25 May 2016}}<ref name = may16>[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/may16.html Executions in May 2016].</ref>|[[Patrick Gabaakanye]]|[[murder]]|[[hanging]]}} |
{{LE|CC7862|BWA|{{sort|2016-05-25|25 May 2016}}<ref name = may16>[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/may16.html Executions in May 2016].</ref>|[[Patrick Gabaakanye]]|[[murder]]|[[hanging]]}} |
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{{LE|E8AA30|NER|{{sort|1976|1976}}<ref name = westafrica/>|[[Bayéré Moussa]], [[Sidi Mohamed]], and [[Ahmed Mouddour]]|[[treason]]|}} |
{{LE|E8AA30|NER|{{sort|1976|1976}}<ref name = westafrica/>|[[Bayéré Moussa]], [[Sidi Mohamed]], and [[Ahmed Mouddour]]|[[treason]]|}} |
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{{LE|CC7862|NGA|{{sort|2016-12-23|23 December 2016}}<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2016/12/29/lawyer-3-nigerian-death-row-inmates-secretly-executed/]</ref>|Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene, and Mark Omosowhota |[[murder]] |[[hanging]]}} |
{{LE|CC7862|NGA|{{sort|2016-12-23|23 December 2016}}<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2016/12/29/lawyer-3-nigerian-death-row-inmates-secretly-executed/]</ref>|Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene, and Mark Omosowhota |[[murder]] |[[hanging]]}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|RWA|{{sort|1998-04-24|24 April 1998}}<ref>[http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=10001366 "Rwanda is the first African country in the Great Lakes region to abolish the death penalty"], 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.</ref>|[[Froduald Karamira]] and at least 21 others|[[genocide]]|[[firing squad]]}} |
{{LE|3F9BBB|RWA|{{sort|1998-04-24|24 April 1998}}<ref>[http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=10001366 "Rwanda is the first African country in the Great Lakes region to abolish the death penalty"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524001733/http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=10001366 |date=2011-05-24 }}, 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.</ref>|[[Froduald Karamira]] and at least 21 others|[[genocide]]|[[firing squad]]}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|SADR|{{sort|1976|1976}}|||}} |
{{LE|3F9BBB|SADR|{{sort|1976|1976}}|||}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|STP|{{sort|0000-00-01|none since independence on 12 July 1975}}<ref name = hood/>|||}} |
{{LE|3F9BBB|STP|{{sort|0000-00-01|none since independence on 12 July 1975}}<ref name = hood/>|||}} |
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{{LE|CC7862|BHR|{{sort|2017-01-15|15 January 2017}}<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-security-execution-idUSKBN14Z08A "Bahrain executes three Shi'ites for bombing, sparks outcry"]</ref>|Sami Mushaima, Ali Al-Singace and Abbas Al-Samea|[[terrorism]]|[[firing squad]]<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/15/world/bahrain-execution/ "Bahrain executes 3 men convicted in bombing that killed police"]</ref>}} |
{{LE|CC7862|BHR|{{sort|2017-01-15|15 January 2017}}<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-security-execution-idUSKBN14Z08A "Bahrain executes three Shi'ites for bombing, sparks outcry"]</ref>|Sami Mushaima, Ali Al-Singace and Abbas Al-Samea|[[terrorism]]|[[firing squad]]<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/15/world/bahrain-execution/ "Bahrain executes 3 men convicted in bombing that killed police"]</ref>}} |
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{{LE|CC7862|BGD|{{sort|2017-11-29|29 November 2017}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/11/29/shazneen-killer-executed/|title=Shazneen killer executed|publisher=Dhaka Tribune|date=29 November 2017|accessdate=2 December 2017}}</ref>|Shahidul Islam|[[rape]] and [[murder]]|[[hanging]]}} |
{{LE|CC7862|BGD|{{sort|2017-11-29|29 November 2017}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2017/11/29/shazneen-killer-executed/|title=Shazneen killer executed|publisher=Dhaka Tribune|date=29 November 2017|accessdate=2 December 2017}}</ref>|Shahidul Islam|[[rape]] and [[murder]]|[[hanging]]}} |
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{{LE|3F9BBB|BTN|{{sort|1974|1974}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT500012005|title=The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2004|publisher=Amnesty International|date=4 April 2005|accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>|||}} |
{{LE|3F9BBB|BTN|{{sort|1974|1974}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT500012005|title=The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2004|publisher=Amnesty International|date=4 April 2005|accessdate=7 February 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050413044456/http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT500012005|archivedate=13 April 2005|df=}}</ref>|||}} |
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{{LE|E8AA30|BRU|{{sort|0000-00-01|none since independence on 1 January 1984}}<ref name = commonwealth/>|||}} |
{{LE|E8AA30|BRU|{{sort|0000-00-01|none since independence on 1 January 1984}}<ref name = commonwealth/>|||}} |
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Revision as of 15:08, 31 December 2017
This is a list of the most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions performed in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
# | Country | Last execution date | Name | Crime | Method |
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29 November 2017[40] | Mohammad Esak Anwari, Zalmai, Abdul Zahir, Timor and Fayeq | kidnapping and murder | hanging | |
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30 August 1991[41] | unnamed man | murder | single firearm | |
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1993[42] | single firearm | |||
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15 January 2017[43] | Sami Mushaima, Ali Al-Singace and Abbas Al-Samea | terrorism | firing squad[44] | |
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29 November 2017[45] | Shahidul Islam | rape and murder | hanging | |
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1974[46] | ||||
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none since independence on 1 January 1984[4] | ||||
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1989 | ||||
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28 November 2017[47] | Tang Zhuorong, Tang Shaokun and Huang Haohua | drug smuggling | firearm | |
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16 November 1966[48][49] | Wong Kai Kei[50] | robbery-murder | hanging | |
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30 July 2015[51] | Yakub Memon | terrorism | hanging | |
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29 July 2016[52] | Freddy Budiman, Seck Osmane, Michael Titus Igweh, and Humphrey Ejike | drug offences | firing squad | |
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14 December 2017[53] | unnamed man | murder | hanging | |
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14 December 2017[54] | 38 Islamist militants | terrorism | hanging | |
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31 May 1962 | Adolf Eichmann | crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people | hanging | |
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19 December 2017[55] | Teruhiko Seki and Kiyoshi Matsui | Multiple murders | hanging | |
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4 March 2017[56] | 15 unnamed men | murder and terrorism | hanging | |
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2003 | ||||
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25 January 2017[57] | Nazra al-Enezi, Prince Faisal Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah, Jakatia Pawa and 4 others people | murder and/or rapes | hanging | |
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none since independence on 25 December 1991 | ||||
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1989[58] | ||||
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17 January 2004[59] | three unnamed men | murder | hanging | |
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24 May 2017[60] | Yong Kar Mun and another unnamed man | armed robbery / murder | hanging | |
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none since independence on 26 July 1965[4] | ||||
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2008[61][62] | ||||
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13 March 2016[63] | Yan Lu and Li Jian Guo | murder | firearm | |
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never used | ||||
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1979[64] | ||||
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27 February 2017[65][66] | 5 security officials | making false report | anti-aircraft guns | |
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2015[67] | 2 unnamed men | hanging or firearm[67][68] | ||
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17 November 2017[69] | Muhammad Tahir | murder | hanging | |
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25 May 2017[70] | Ashraf Abu Leila, Hisham al-Aloul and Abdallah al-Nashar | murder and treason | public hanging and firing squad | |
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4 January 2000[71] | Alex Bartolome | child rape | lethal injection | |
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10 March 2003[72] | Arun Abraham | murder | firing squad[73] | |
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28 November 2017[74] | Ali Ali Ahmed Al-Safali, Sadeq Ahmed Safir al-Qatafi, Mohammed Mohammed Hassan al-Safali, Saleh Mohammed Hassan Maladhi, Zayed Majder Ahmed Aashi, Abdullah Shuei Hassan Maladhi and Luwifi bin Ferhan bin Faleh al-Bawi[69] | murder / drug smuggling | public beheading by sword | |
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14 July 2017[75] | Prabagaran Srivijayan | drug offences | hanging | |
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31 December 1997[76] | 23 people | hanging | ||
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23 June 1976[4] | Chardradasa Jayasinghe | murder | hanging | |
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15 May 2017[77] | political dissidence | secret hanging | ||
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10 May 2016[6] | Cheng Chieh | murder | firearm | |
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April 2004[78] | Rachabmurod Chumayev, Umed Idiyev, Akbar Radzshabov, and Mukharam Fatkhulloyev | mass murder | firing squad | |
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24 August 2009[79] | Bundit Jaroenwanit and Jirawat Poompreuk | drug offences | lethal injection | |
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none since independence on 20 May 2002[2] | ||||
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25 October 1984[41] | Hidir Aslan | murder | hanging | |
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1997[2] | ||||
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23 November 2017[80] | Nida Eisa Abdullah | rape and murder of child | firearm | |
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2005[81] | single firearm | |||
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2016[82][36] | lethal injection | |||
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14 August 2017[83] | Hussein al-Saket | rape and murder of child | public firearm |
# | Country | Last execution date | Name | Crime | Method |
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none since self-government on 4 August 1965 | ||||
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none since independence on 10 October 1970[4] | ||||
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none since independence on 12 July 1979[4] | ||||
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none since independence on 21 October 1986[123] | ||||
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none since independence on 3 November 1986[124] | ||||
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none since independence on 31 January 1968[4] | ||||
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17 February 1957[4] | Walter James Bolton | murder | hanging | |
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never used | ||||
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none since independence on 1 October 1994[2] | ||||
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none since independence on 16 September 1975[4][125] | ||||
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none since independence on 1 January 1962[4] | ||||
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none since independence on 7 July 1978[4] | ||||
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7 September 1982[4] | Haloti Sole, Livingi Sole, and Fili Esau | murder | hanging | |
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none since independence on 1 October 1978[4] | ||||
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none since independence on 30 July 1980[4] |
# | State | Last execution date | Name | Crime | Method |
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11 June 1951 | Takuma Nishimura | war crimes | hanging | |
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24 August 1939[4] | John Kelly | murder | hanging | |
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7 August 1952[4] | Jaroslav Koci and Jan Novotny | murder | hanging | |
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22 September 1913[4] | Ernest Austin | murder | hanging | |
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24 November 1964[4] | Glen Sabre Valance | murder | hanging | |
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14 February 1946[4] | Frederick Thompson | murder | hanging | |
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3 February 1967[4] | Ronald Ryan | murder | hanging | |
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26 October 1964 | Eric Edgar Cooke | murder | hanging |
# | Country | Last execution date | Name | Crime | Method |
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1916[126] | ||||
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1974[127] | ||||
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28 April 1876[128] | Francisco | murder | hanging | |
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1985[129] | Carlos Topp Collins and Jorge Sagredo | murder | firearm | |
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1909[130] | ||||
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1884[131] | ||||
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August 1997[4] | Michael Archer and Peter Adams | murder | hanging | |
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1928[132] | ||||
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1979[133] | ||||
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13 March 1982[134][135] | Wilfred Hawker | treason | firing squad | |
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1905[136] | ||||
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See also
References
- ^ "Algeria's laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ a b c d e f g Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle (2008, 4th ed.). The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-922847-7) app. 1.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Amnesty International, "West Africa: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty" Archived 2014-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, 2003-10-10, amnesty.org, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at "Capital punishment in the Commonwealth", capitalpunishmentuk.org, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ Amnesty International, "Bulletin Peine de Mort: Résumé des événements relatifs à la peine de mort et initiatives en vue de son abolition partout dans le monde", 1991-02-01, accessed 2008-08-12.
- ^ a b Executions in May 2016.
- ^ "Burundi: Crimes punishable by death are: premeditated murder...", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08
- ^ Central African Republic: Capital crimes include: aggravated murder..., 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ Executions in August 2015.
- ^ "Comoros: Aggravated murder, treason and spying are capital crimes", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ "Congo: Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
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- ^ Executions in August 2007
- ^ "Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee, Gabon", 2000-11-10, wits.ac.za, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ Report: Gambia executes first inmates in about 30 years
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- ^ "Guinea: Capital crimes include aggravated murder, spying and armed robbery", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ "Guinea Bissau abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1993", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
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- ^ "The last executions in Madagascar were carried out under French colonial rule in 1958", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ "Malawi: The offences for which capital punishment either can or must be applied are murder", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
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- ^ "Al-Shabaab militants executed in Somalia's Puntland". Independent Online. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ^ Executions in January 2016.
- ^ Executions in August 2016.
- ^ a b c "Amnesty International Global Report. Death sentences and executions 2016"
- ^ "Tunisia: Murder, violence and aggression, attacks against the internal security of the State and attacks against the external security of the State are all capital offences", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
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- ^ "Azerbaijan: Time to abolish the death penalty"
- ^ "Bahrain executes three Shi'ites for bombing, sparks outcry"
- ^ "Bahrain executes 3 men convicted in bombing that killed police"
- ^ "Shazneen killer executed". Dhaka Tribune. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
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. No executions have taken place in Hong Kong since sovereignty was transferred to China in 1997. Hong Kong remains an independent and separate jurisdiction for legal and judicial purposes.
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- ^ "Prisoner Hanged On Murder Charges in Southern Iran". Iran Human Rights. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
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- ^ "Japan: Two hanged as secretive executions continue". Amnesty International. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
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- ^ "Kuwait Executes 7 People: Royal Prince Included Among Those Hanged"
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- ^ "The Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal (1990) at Article 12 states", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
- ^ "Report: N. Korea executes officials with anti-aircraft guns for 'enraging' Kim Jong Un". CNBC. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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- ^ "Saudi Arabia beheaded 130 prisoners this year and 'dangled corpses from a helicopter as warning'". The Sun. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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- ^ "On February 11, 2005, the Tajik parliament voted to abolish the death penalty", 2008-01-01, handsoffcain.info, accessed 2008-08-08.
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- ^ "Belarus Carries Out First Execution This Year; EU Urges Moratorium"
- ^ Executions were carried out as late as 1951 by the occupying Allied powers, but capital punishment was outlawed by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany on 1949-05-23.
- ^ The most recent execution in Iceland was on 12 January 1830 when Fridrik Sigurdsson and Agnes Magnusdottir were executed by beheading for murder. Iceland was a Danish colony at the time.
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- ^ a b Jovanka SIMIĆ (30 July 2005). "Njeno ime samo šapućemo" [We Only Whisper Her Name] (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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External links
- Death Penalty Worldwide Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world.
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