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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.
Capital punishment in Canada dates to Canada's earliest history, including its period as first a French then a British colony. From 1867 to the elimination of the death penalty for murder on July 26, 1976, 1,481 people had been sentenced to death, and 710 had been executed. Of those executed, 697 were men and 13 women.
Two of the male accomplices were executed on 10 October 1754; the following day, Eleanor and Robert Power followed and became the first married couple to hang together in present-day Canada. [6] Eleanor Power was also the first non-Native American woman to be executed by British authorities in present-day Canada.
People executed by Canada (11 C, 1 P) S. Prisoners sentenced to death by Canada (1 C, 10 P) Execution sites in Canada (4 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in ...
Rhoda Willis (1907) last woman executed in Wales; Mimi Wong, the first female offender to be executed in Singapore since its independence in 1965 (1973) Joseph Wood (2014) Nathaniel Woods (2020) Eric Wrinkles (2009) Edmund Zagorski (2018) Keith Zettlemoyer (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Pennsylvania; William G. Zuern Jr. (2004)
At 1,600 executions in the past five decades, the United States is a rarity among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment, with more than 70% of nations globally having banned ...
Those excused from the death penalty are: women with small children, women who are pregnant, teenagers who were under 18 at the time of the crime, and the mentally ill. [75] In Egypt, it is believed that at least 1,700 people were executed under the death penalty, and 1,413 death sentences alone were issued between 2007 and 2014. [75]
If it goes forward, she will be the first transgender woman to die by execution in the U.S. and the first person to be executed in 2023. A second execution next year in Missouri is scheduled for ...