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The list of capital crimes enumerated in the statute books of Laos include murder; terrorism; drug trafficking; drug possession; robbery; kidnapping; obstructing an officer in the performance of his public duties and causing his death or causing him physically disability; disrupting industry, trade, agriculture or other economic activities with the intent of undermining the national economy ...
Laos: 1989 [127] C Lebanon: 17 January 2004 [128] [129] Badih Hamadeh, Remi Antoine Zaatar and Ahmed Mansour murder: firing squad, hanging: A Macau: 19th century [130] D Malaysia: 24 May 2017 [131] Yong Kar Mun and another unnamed man armed robbery / murder: hanging: C Maldives: none since independence on 26 July 1965 [4] A Mongolia: 2008 [132 ...
On 3 August 2009, the death sentences of all 4,000 death row inmates were commuted to life imprisonment, and government studies were ordered to determine if the death penalty has any impact on crime. In 2017 the Supreme Court of Kenya struck down the mandatory death penalty as unconstitutional. Lesotho: 1995 [97] n/a
In 1989, Laos took steps to reduce the number of political prisoners, many of whom had been held since 1975. [2] Several hundred detainees, including many high-ranking officials and officers from the former United States-backed RLG and Royal Lao Army , were released from reeducation centers in the northeastern province of Houaphan . [ 2 ]
Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home country late on Tuesday, the latest in a series of foreign drug convicts ...
Laos * Low Libya: Insufficient data [17] [12] [13] Malaysia * High A Moroccan man was sentenced to death by the High Court on May 30, 2013, for trafficking in more than six kilograms of methamphetamine. [18] A man was sentenced to death by hanging on September 3, 2021, for 299 grams of cannabis presumed to be for trafficking. [19] Mauritania *
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.
Due to the ostensible neutrality of Laos, guaranteed by the Geneva Conference of 1954 and 1962, both the U.S. and North Vietnam strove to maintain the secrecy of their operations and only slowly escalated military actions there. [2] In 1975, Laos emerged from nine years of war as devastated as any of the other Asian participants in the Vietnam War.