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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Pakistan. Although there have been numerous amendments to the Constitution, there is yet to be a provision prohibiting the death penalty as a punitive remedy. [1][2] A moratorium on executions was imposed in 2008. No executions occurred from 2009 to 2011, with 1 in 2012 and 0 in 2013. [3]
After the Cold War, many more countries followed: 36 countries abolished capital punishment in the 1990s, with 9 in 1990 alone, 23 in the 2000s, 11 in the 2010s, and 7 so far in the 2020s. Since 1985, there have been only 6 years when no country has abolished the death penalty: 2001, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2018 and 2023.
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.
War crime. v. t. e. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [ 1 ][ 2 ] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [ 3 ] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out ...
Former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia offers some advice to new Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam: abolish the death penalty, and your country will be better off.
Death penalty. HRCP has consistently campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty. The government placed a moratorium on executions in late 2008, which was withdrawn five years later. Efforts to revive this moratorium and abolish capital punishment continue. Electoral reforms. HRCP's proposal for electoral reforms was accepted by the ...
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern ...
Recalling also the resolutions on the question of the death penalty adopted over the past decade by the Commission on Human Rights in all consecutive sessions, the last being its resolution 2005/59 of 20 April 2005, [d] in which the Commission called upon states that still maintain the death penalty to abolish it completely and, in the meantime ...