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The list of capital crimes enumerated in the statute books of Laos include murder; terrorism; drug trafficking; drug possession; robbery; kidnapping; obstructing an officer in the performance of his public duties and causing his death or causing him physically disability; disrupting industry, trade, agriculture or other economic activities with the intent of undermining the national economy ...
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 1989, Laos took steps to reduce the number of political prisoners, many of whom had been held since 1975. [2] Several hundred detainees, including many high-ranking officials and officers from the former United States-backed RLG and Royal Lao Army , were released from reeducation centers in the northeastern province of Houaphan . [ 2 ]
In a post on a Laos backpacking Facebook group on 16 November, which has since been deleted, Ms Clarke wrote: “Urgent – please avoid all local spirits. Our group stayed in Vang Vieng and we ...
On 3 August 2009, the death sentences of all 4,000 death row inmates were commuted to life imprisonment, and government studies were ordered to determine if the death penalty has any impact on crime. In 2017 the Supreme Court of Kenya struck down the mandatory death penalty as unconstitutional. Lesotho: 1995 [97] n/a
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...
On Dec. 19, Kevin Ray Underwood became the last person executed in 2024.Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin. Six days earlier, the Oklahoma Pardon and ...
People executed by Laos or Laotian authorities. For people of Laotian nationality who were executed, see Category:Executed Laotian people. Subcategories.