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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).
In 2012, Latvia became the last EU member state to abolish capital punishment in wartime. [1] In Russia, capital punishment has been indefinitely suspended (under moratorium) since 1996. [2] [3] Except for Belarus, which, most recently, carried out one execution in 2022, [4] the last execution in a European country occurred in Ukraine in 1997.
Capital Punishment was abolished for political crimes in 1852, civil crimes in 1867 and war crimes in 1911. [372] In 1916, capital punishment was reinstated only for military offenses that occurred in a war against a foreign country and in the theater of war. [373] Capital punishment was completely abolished again in 1976. [374] Romania: 1989 ...
2 History of abolition. ... all European countries but one have abolished capital punishment; ... with complete abolition in 1998); in France in 1981; ...
On 9 October the law was officially enacted, ending capital punishment in France. [22] During his mandate, he also helped abolish "juridictions d'exception " ("special courts"), such as the Cour de Sûreté de l'État ("State Security Court ") and the military courts, [23] and improved the rights of victims of crime. [23]
France has a dual system of law: ... followed by abolition in 1790. [32] ... capital punishment was the most severe penalty, ...
After its adoption, the device remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. [4] The last person to be executed by a government via guillotine was Hamida Djandoubi on 10 September 1977 in France. [5]
He succeeded his wife's uncle, André Obrecht, in 1976 and held his position until 1981, when capital punishment was abolished under president François Mitterrand and justice minister Robert Badinter. [2] The method of application of the death penalty for civilian capital offences in France from 1791 to 1981 was beheading with the guillotine.