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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.
The final three guillotinings in France before its abolition were those of child-murderers Christian Ranucci (on 28 July 1976) in Marseille, Jérôme Carrein (on 23 June 1977) in Douai and torturer-murderer Hamida Djandoubi (on 10 September 1977) in Marseille. Djandoubi's death was the last time that the guillotine was used for an execution by ...
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 ...
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.
The first modern abolition of capital punishment was in Tuscany in 1786. [citation needed] In Europe, the 19th and early 20th centuries saw a shift away from the spectacle of public capital punishment and toward private executions and the deprivation of liberty (e.g. incarceration, probation, community service, etc.). [25]
By continent, all European countries but one have abolished capital punishment; [note 1] many Oceanian countries have abolished it; [note 2] most countries in the Americas have abolished its use, [note 3] while a few actively retain it; [note 4] less than half of countries in Africa retain it; [note 5] and the majority of countries in Asia ...
The age of the offender was taken into consideration in dispensing punishment, retaining the Roman distinction between infants, pre-pubescent, pubescent, and so on. If they were Latin: doli capax, lit. 'capable of deceit', they could be legally punished, including capital punishment for children of 11. [19]