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Capital punishment in Europe. Europe holds the greatest concentration of abolitionist states (blue). Map current as of 2022. Capital punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, the latter of which has a moratorium and has not carried out an execution since September 1996. The complete ban on ...
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 ...
In 1988, Norway signed on to protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights which bans the use of capital punishment in peacetime [6] and ratified protocol 13 which bans all use of capital punishment whatsoever in 2005. [10] Norway generally opposes capital punishment outside of the country as well.
By continent, all European countries but one have abolished capital punishment; [note 1] many Oceanian countries have abolished it; [note 2] most countries in the Americas have abolished its use, [note 3] while a few actively retain it; [note 4] less than half of countries in Africa retain it; [note 5] and the majority of countries in Asia ...
Retains capital punishment. Lithuania on the map of Europe. Capital punishment in Lithuania was ruled unconstitutional and abolished for all crimes on 9 December 1998. [1] Lithuania is a member of the Council of Europe and has signed and ratified Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights on complete abolition of death penalty. [2]
Capital punishment in Latvia. Europe holds the greatest concentration of abolitionist states (blue). Map current as of 2022. Capital punishment in Latvia was abolished for ordinary crimes in 1999 and for crimes committed during wartime in 2012. [1] Latvia is party to several international instruments which ban capital punishment.
Capital punishment in France (French: peine de mort en France) is banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic, voted as a constitutional amendment by the Congress of the French Parliament on 19 February 2007 and simply stating "No one can be sentenced to the death penalty" (French: Nul ne peut être condamné à la peine de mort).
Capital punishment in Germany has been abolished for all crimes, and is now explicitly prohibited by the constitution. It was abolished in West Germany in 1949, in the Saarland in 1956 (as part of the Saarland joining West Germany and becoming a state of West Germany), and East Germany in 1987. The last person executed in Germany was the East ...