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A death penalty for hoarding was decreed by the government on 25 March 1921 to deal with the shortage of products, blamed on the speculation on behalf of merchants. [8] [9] Between 1921 and 1924, many summery executions were carried out by Cheka against "counter-revolutionaries" such as Georgian military officers involved in the Committee for ...
Status: Current legislation. Text of statute as originally enacted. The Caribbean Territories (Abolition of Death Penalty for Murder) Order 1991 (1991 No. 988) is an Order-in-Council issued by the Privy Council of the United Kingdom abolishing the death penalty for murder in the British Dependent Territories in the Caribbean.
Malaysians Against Death Penalty & Torture. Malaysians Against Death Penalty & Torture (MADPET) is a movement for the abolition of the death penalty and torture. MADPET has been involved in many other human rights causes including fighting for freedom of expression, right to privacy, right to a fair trial and against the abuse of power police ...
Map current as of 2022. Abolished for all offences. Abolished in practice. Retains capital punishment. Capital punishment in modern Greece was carried out using the guillotine (until 1913) or by firing squad. It was last applied in 1972 during the military junta. The death penalty was abolished in stages between 1975 and 2005.
Capital punishment in Russia. Execution of the murderers of Alexander II of Russia. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Russia, but is not used due to a moratorium and no death sentences or executions have been carried out since 2 August 1996. Russia has had an implicit moratorium in place since one was established by President Boris ...
Capital punishment in Indonesia. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Indonesia. Although the death penalty is normally enforced only in grave cases of premeditated murder, corruption in extreme cases can lead to the death penalty and the death penalty is also regularly applied to certain drug traffickers.
The Capital Punishment (Ireland) Act 1842 [8] brought the law in Ireland closer to that of England by reducing the penalties for numerous offences, and abolishing the capital crime of serving in the army or navy of France. The Offences Against the Person Act 1861 reduced the number of capital crimes from over two hundred to just three: murder ...
