Capital punishment in the United Kingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used within the British Isles from ancient times until the second...

United Kingdom until 1998 by the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Death penalty Murder in English law Capital punishment in...

certain forms of aggravated murder in the United States. Some jurisdictions that provide for death as a possible punishment for murder, such as California...

Capital punishment in the Netherlands (Dutch: doodstraf in Nederland) was abolished in 1870 in criminal law after the States General recognized it to...

Capital punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, the latter of which has a moratorium and has...

the drop in the 1913 Table.[citation needed] The Table continued to be used in the United Kingdom until the country suspended capital punishment in 1965...

Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used...

The 1978 Spanish Constitution bans capital punishment in Spain, except for wartime offences. Spain completely abolished capital punishment for all offenses...

Capital punishment in India is a legal penalty for some crimes under the country's main substantive penal legislation, the Indian Penal Code, as well as...

Capital punishment in Norway (Norwegian: dødsstraff) has been constitutionally prohibited since 2014. Before that, it had been fully abolished in 1979...

controversial at the time due to Teed's claims of mental illness, and may have hastened the abolition of capital punishment in the United Kingdom. Teed was one...

Capital punishment in Canada dates back to Canada's earliest history, including its period as a French colony and, after 1763, its time as a British colony...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment...

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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Belarus. At least one execution was carried out in the country in 2022. Also known as an Exceptional Measure of...

Capital punishment in traditional Jewish law has been defined in Codes of Jewish law dating back to medieval times, based on a system of oral laws contained...

Capital punishment in Hawaii ended in 1957 when it was still an organized incorporated territory of the United States. About 75 people were executed by...

Capital punishment in Nepal has been abolished. For crimes under the country's common law, capital punishment was abolished by legal reform in 1946. It...

Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history. It currently remains a legal...

and by 1861, the number of capital offences had been reduced to five. The last execution in the United Kingdom took place in 1964, and the death penalty...

The use of capital punishment in Italy has been banned since 1889, with the exception of the period 1926–1947, encompassing the rule of Fascism in Italy...

executed soon after. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom Alice Glaston, 11-year old girl who was the youngest girl executed in the history of England...

Capital punishment in Belgium was formally abolished on August 1, 1996, for all crimes, in both peacetime and wartime. The last execution for crimes committed...

to her execution. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom John Dean, 8- or 9-year-old boy who was the youngest person executed in the history of England...

Capital punishment in New Jersey is currently abolished, after Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine signed a law repealing it in 2007. Before this, capital...

Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three...

each blamed the other, but the jury found both men guilty, and both were sentenced to death. The use of capital punishment in the United Kingdom had been...

part in 1968, and totally in 1973. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom High treason in the United Kingdom Defence of the Realm Act 1914 Emergency...

Capital punishment in Thailand is a legal penalty, and the country is, as of 2021, one of 54 nations to retain capital punishment both in legislation...

Capital punishment is legal in Tonga, but has not been imposed since 1982. The country's lack of executions puts it into the category of a state abolitionist...