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The only country in Europe that continues to execute in the 21st century is Belarus (last execution done in 2022). [8] No member of the Council of Europe has carried out executions in the 21st century. The last execution on the present day territory of the Council of Europe took place in 1997 in Ukraine. [9] [10]
Since 1999, Belarus has been the only recognized country in Europe to carry out executions. 2009, 2015, 2020 are the first three years in recorded history when Europe was completely free of executions. The countries in Europe that most recently abolished the death penalty are Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019), Latvia (2012), and Albania (2007).
Country Last execution date Name Crime Method C Abkhazia: never used: A Albania: 29 June 1995 [citation needed] murder hanging: A Andorra: 18 October 1943 [154] [155] Pere Areny murder: firing squad: A Armenia: 30 August 1991 [154] unnamed man murder: single firearm: A Austria: 24 March 1950 [154] Johann Trnka: murder: hanging: A Azerbaijan ...
The only retentionist country in Europe is Belarus and in March 2023 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a law which allows to use capital punishment against officials and soldiers convicted of high treason. [94] During the 1980s, the democratisation of Latin America swelled the ranks of abolitionist countries. [95]
Tearing apart by horses (e.g., in medieval Europe and Imperial China, with four horses; or "quartering", with four horses, as in The Song of Roland), variant with tearing apart by camels was sometimes used in the Middle East. Trampling by horses (example: Al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad). Poena cullei, used during the Roman ...
Portugal is a safe country with low crime rates. It offers good freedom of movement within the Schengen Area and has made significant strides in promoting equality and anti-discrimination.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which looks at dozens of measures of economic and institutional health to compile a ranking of countries.
Public executions were abolished in New Zealand by the Executions of Criminals Act 1858, which specified that executions had to be carried out "within the walls or the enclosed yard of some gaol, or within some other enclosed space". [40] The act came into force on 3 June 1858, three months after the country's last public hanging in central ...