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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 [153] [154] Pere Areny murder: firing squad: A Armenia: 30 August 1991 [153] unnamed man murder: single firearm: A Austria: 24 March 1950 [153] Johann Trnka: murder: hanging: A Azerbaijan ...
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).
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]
The majority of European countries have signed and ratified it. Some European countries have not done this, but all of them except Belarus have now abolished the death penalty in all circumstances (de jure, and Russia de facto). Armenia is the most recent country to ratify the protocol, on 19 October 2023. [277]
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Belarus.At least one execution was carried out in the country in 2022. [1]Also known as an Exceptional Measure of Punishment (Russian: Исключительная Мера Наказания, ИМН), [2] the death penalty has been a part of the country's legal system since gaining independence from the Soviet Union on August 25, 1991.
The last public execution in the United States occurred in 1936. [25] As in Europe, the practice of execution was moved to the privacy of chambers. Viewing remains available for those related to the person being executed, victims' families, and sometimes reporters. Frances Larson wrote in her 2014 book Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads ...
Bukele said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system ...
In most countries, execution by a firing squad has historically been considered a more honorable death and was used primarily for military personnel, though in some countries—among them Belarus, the only state in Europe today that has the death penalty—the single executioner shooting inherited from the Soviet past is still in use.