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Execution of the murderers of Alexander II of Russia. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Russia but is not used due to a moratorium and no death sentences or executions have been carried out since 2 August 1996. Russia has had an implicit moratorium in place since one was established by President Boris Yeltsin in 1996, and explicitly ...
Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state -sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the world. Since the mid-19th century many countries have abolished or discontinued the practice. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In 2022, the five countries that executed the ...
A 1991 Helsinki Watch report stated that in January of that year the Soviet Union for the first time published capital punishment data. It was disclosed that, in 1990, 445 individuals were given the death sentence, 195 people were executed and 29 death sentences were commuted. Execution took the form of a gunshot to the back of the head. [3]
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin. Yevgeny Anatolyevich Nuzhin (Russian: Евгений Анатольевич Нужин; 1967 – November 2022) was a convicted Russian murderer who enlisted in Wagner Group during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was a prisoner of war in Ukraine and was later summarily executed by the Wagner Group for alleged ...
The first two murders occurred late on 25 June 2007. The first victim was a 33-year-old woman, Yekaterina Ilchenko, [9] who was walking home after having tea at her friend's apartment.
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus retains the death penalty only for crimes committed under special circumstances (war crimes). See also Capital punishment in Cyprus. There is no death penalty in Kosovo. [57] The Donetsk People's Republic introduced the death penalty in 2014 for cases of treason, espionage, and assassination of political ...
David Kirke, the inventor of bungee jumping, has died at the age of 78, a friend of his family told The Independent. The co-founder of the Dangerous Sports Club based in Oxford and London ...
Capital punishment was a part of the legal system of Australia from the establishment of New South Wales as a British penal colony, until 1985, by which time all Australian states and territories had abolished the death penalty; [29] in practice, the last execution in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan on 3 February 1967, in Victoria. [30]