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{{capital punishment}}
The following is a summary of the '''use of capital punishment by country'''.

== Global overview ==
Capital punishment has been used in almost every part of the world, but many countries have since abolished it. The use of capital punishment is usually divided into the four categories set out below. As of March 2015, of the 195 independent states that are [[Member states of the United Nations|UN members]] or have [[United Nations General Assembly observers|UN observer status]]:

*103 (53%) have abolished it for all crimes;
*  6 (3%) have abolished, but retain it for exceptional or special circumstances (such as crimes committed in wartime);
* 50 (26%) retain, but have not used it for at least 10 years or are under a [[Moratorium (law)|moratorium]];
* 36 (18%) retain it in both law and practice.

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'''Legend'''
{{legend|#008080|Abolished for all crimes - 103 (53%)}}
{{legend|#80E000|Abolished for all crimes except under exceptional/special circumstances (such as crimes committed in wartime) - 6 (3%)}}
{{legend|#E0A040|Not used in practice (under a moratorium or have not used capital punishment in at least 10 years) - 50 (26%)}}
{{legend|#FF0000|Retainers of the death penalty in law and practice - 36 (18%)}}
]]

;Recent complete abolition of capital punishment: Gabon (2010), Latvia (2012), Benin (2012), Mongolia (2012), Madagascar (2012), Chad (2014), Fiji (2015), and Suriname (2015)
;Execution of minors: Since 2009, Iran and Saudi Arabia have executed offenders who were under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/executions-of-child-offenders-since-1990 |title=Executions of juveniles since 1990 |publisher=Amnesty International}}</ref>

;[[Public execution]]: In 2013 public executions were carried out by the governments of Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia.<ref name="amnesty2013">{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/sites/default/files/amnesty_death_penalty_report_2014_final.pdf|title=Death Sentences and Executions 2013 |publisher=Amnesty International|accessdate=22 November 2014}}</ref>

;Extrajudicial execution: In some countries the practice of [[extrajudicial execution]] sporadically or systematically outside their own formal legal frameworks occurs. Information on this is not covered in this article.

==Africa==
Of the 54 independent states in Africa that are UN members:

*19 (35%) have abolished it.
*25 (46%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is under a moratorium.
*10 (19%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.

The information above is accurate as of 2015 when Uganda and Zimbabwe became de facto abolitionist for not carrying out the death penalty for over 10 years.

*In 2014, Sudan was Africa's leading executioner. This century the following African countries have abolished capital punishment; Ivory Coast (2000), Senegal (2004), Rwanda (2007), Burundi (2009), Togo (2009), Gabon (2010), Benin (2012), Madagascar (2012), and Chad (2014).

Executions in Africa in 2014: Egypt (16+), Equatorial Guniea (9), Somalia (14+), Sudan (23+)<ref name="amnesty.org">https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/0001/2015/en/</ref> <br>
''Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the [[Image:Sort both.svg]] icon.''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[#Legend|Key]]
! style="width:13em;" | Country
! style="width:7em;"  | Year of last execution
! style="width:5em;"  | Executions 2014<ref name="amnestyusa.org">http://www.amnestyusa.org/images/dpreport2013_map.jpg</ref>
! style="width:7em;"  | Year abolished
! class="unsortable"  | Notes
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|DZA}}
|align="center"|1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for [[treason]]; espionage; attempts to change the regime or actions aimed at incitement; destruction of territory; [[sabotage]] to public and economic utilities; [[List of events named massacres|massacres]] and [[Mass murder|slaughters]]; [[brigandage|participation in armed bands]] or in [[insurrection]]ary movements; [[counterfeiting]]; terrorism; acts of [[torture]] or cruelty; [[kidnapping]]; [[theft|aggravated theft]]. Currently under a moratorium. On 20 December 2012, Algeria co-sponsored and voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/bancadati/schedastato.php?idcontinente=25&nome=algeria</ref>	
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|AGO}}
|align="center"| *None since independence in 1975
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1992
|Abolished in 1992 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BEN}}
|align="center"|1987
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2012
|On 6 July 2012, [[Benin]] acceded to the Second Additional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which makes Benin abolitionist.<ref name=Benin>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=16307938 |title=Benin: Accession to the Second Optional Protocol Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=5 July 2012 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|BWA}}
|align="center"|2013<ref name="handsoffcain.info">http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201305.php?iddocumento=17305891&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Hanging. Death penalty for murder; treason; [[attempted murder|attempt on the life]] of the [[head of state]]; [[mutiny]]; [[desertion]] in the face of the enemy
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|BFA}}
|align="center"|1988
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2004_04_8_2302.html |title=Burkina Faso Coup Plotter Admits Receiving Aid from Ivory Coast Military |publisher=PolitInfo |date=8 April 2004 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040814231152/http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2004_04_8_2302.html |archivedate=14 August 2004}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BDI}}
|align="center"|2000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/pt-br/library/info/AFR16/021/2004/en |title=Burundi: Imminent resumption of executions or summary trials and executions |publisher=Amnesty International |date=22 November 2004 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/burundi-abolishes-death-penalty-bans-homosexuality-20090427 |title=Burundi abolishes the death penalty but bans homosexuality |publisher=Amnesty International |date=27 April 2009 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|CMR}}
|align="center"|1997<ref name="richard-clark">{{cite web |url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/common.html |title=Capital punishment in the Commonwealth |publisher=Capital Punishment UK |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for [[secession]]; espionage; [[incitement to war]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/hrcommittee/cameroon1999.html |title=Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee, Cameroon, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.116 (1999). |publisher=University of Minnesota |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref> In February 2014, the President of the Republic, [[Paul Biya]], commuted all persons condemned to the death penalty to life in prison. The decree commuted their sentences to 25 years incarceration.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140218204932/france-cameroun-paul-biya-michel-thierry-atangana-cameroun-france-cameroun-paul-biya-signe-un-decret-conduisant-a-la-liberation-de-michel-thierry-atangana.html |title=Cameroun: Paul Biya signe un décret conduisant à la libération de Michel Thierry Atangana |publisher=Jeune Afrique |accessdate=18 February 2014}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CPV}}
|align="center"| *None since independence in 1975
|align="center"|
|align="center"| 1981
|Last execution when a colony of Portugal was 1835. Abolished in 1981 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|CAF}}
|align="center"|1981
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for [[treason]]; espionage; [[charlatan]]ism; [[witchcraft]]; assassination; murder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.unog.ch/news2/documents/newsen/ct04008e.htm |title=Human Rights Committee Considers The Situation In The Central African Republic |publisher=The United Nations Office at Geneva |date=22 July 2004 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040730185830/http://www.unog.ch/news2/documents/newsen/ct04008e.htm |archivedate=30 July 2004}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|TCD}}
|align="center"|2003<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR20/001/2003/en |title=Chad: Execution/Fear of Imminent Execution |publisher=Amnesty International |date=6 November 2003 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2014<ref>https://www.fidh.org/International-Federation-for-Human-Rights/Africa/chad/16074-chad-the-draft-penal-code-abolishes-capital-punishment-but-severely</ref>
|Death penalty abolished 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20140915-tchad-nouveau-code-penal-peine-mort-homosexualite/ |title=Le Tchad a un nouveau code péna |language=fr |date=15 September 2014 |accessdate=7 October 2014}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|COM}}
|align="center"|1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ACT50/009/1996/en/644fc702-eadb-11dd-b22b-3f24cef8f6d8/act500091996en.html |title=The death penalty: List of abolitionist and retentionist countries (October 1996) |publisher=Amnesty International |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|COD}}
|align="center"|2003<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8664155.stm |publisher=BBC News  | title=Congo death verdict prompts worry | date=6 May 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|COG}}
|align="center"|1982
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CIV}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1960<ref name=WestAfricaAmnesty>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/pt-br/library/info/AFR05/003/2003/en |title=West Africa: Time to abolish the death penalty |publisher=Amnesty International |date=9 October 2003 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2000
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|DJI}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1977
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1995
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|EGY}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31779059</ref>
|align="center"|16+
|align="center"|n/a
|Hanging or firing squad. Death penalty for rape (if the victim is also kidnapped); murder; treason; organized drug trafficking
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|GNQ}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>{{cite news| url=http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE67N00T20100824 | agency=Reuters | title=Eq Guinea executes four coup convicts: Amnesty | date=24 August 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|9
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|ERI}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Last execution when part of Ethiopia was 1989.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|ETH}}
|align="center"|2007<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6933849.stm |publisher=BBC News  | title=Ethiopia executes spy boss killer | date=6 August 2007 | accessdate=2 May 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder, treason, [[armed conspiracy]], [[genocide]], outrages against the constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|GAB}}
|align="center"|1981<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/hrcommittee/gabon2000.html |title=Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee, Gabon, U.N. Doc. CCPR/CO/70/GAB (2000) |publisher=University of Minnesota |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=15302086&mover=0# |title=Death Penalty: Hands Off Cain Announces Abolition in Gabon |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=14 February 2011 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|Abolished in February 2010
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|GMB}}
|align="center"|2012<ref>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Carol J. |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/08/gambia-iraq-executions-buck-worldwide-abolitionist-trend.html |title=Gambia, Iraq executions buck worldwide abolitionist trend |work=Los Angeles Times |date=31 August 2012 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason. Abolished 1993 but was reinstated by Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council in August 1995<ref name=WestAfricaAmnesty/>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|GHA}}
|align="center"|1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; treason; armed robbery<ref name=WestAfricaAmnesty/> In 2014, it was agreed that a referendum would be held on several constitutional amendments including the abolition of capital punishment.<ref>http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/ghana-referendum-will-abolish-death.html</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|GNB}}
|align="center"|1986
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1993
|Abolished 1993 by constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|GIN}}
|align="center"|2001<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR29/004/2001/en |title=Guinea: Death Penalty/Fear of Imminent Execution |publisher=Amnesty International |date=14 October 2001 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|KEN}}
|align="center"|1987
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder, armed robbery,<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500072004?open&of=ENG-MAR">{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT50/007/2004/en |title=The Death Penalty Worldwide: Developments in 2003 |publisher=Amnesty International |date=5 April 2004 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref> treason. 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.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|LSO}}
|align="center"|1984
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|LBR}}
|align="center"|1995<ref name=WestAfricaAmnesty/>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for armed robbery, terrorism, [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacking]]. On 16 September 2005, Liberia acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]], abolishing the death penalty, but re-introduced elements of it in July 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://newliberian.com/?p=440 |title=Armed Robbery, Hijacking and Terrorism Now Capitol Offenses in Liberia |publisher=New Liberian |date=26 July 2008 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200808070711.html |title=Liberia: Death Penalty Under Fire |publisher=AllAfrica |date=7 August 2008 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|LBY}}
|align="center"|2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201005.php?iddocumento=13308899&mover=0 |title=Libya: 18 People Executed By Firing Squad |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=30 May 2010 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Libya executed more people (18) in 2010, than any other African state. Current laws allow capital punishment for [[high treason]]; attempt to forcibly change the form of government; [[premeditated murder]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bta.bg/site/libya/en/07courtsystem.htm |title=Libyan Court System And Criminal Justice |publisher=Bulgarian News Agency |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070113171948/http://www.bta.bg/site/libya/en/07courtsystem.htm |archivedate=13 January 2007}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MDG}}
|align="center"|1958
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2012
|Abolished 10 December 2014<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=18310244&mover=0</ref> Earlier, on 24 September 2012, Madagascar had signed the Second Additional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<ref name=UNTC1989>{{cite web |url=http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-12&chapter=4&lang=en |title=Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty |publisher=United Nations Treaty Collection |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|MWI}}
|align="center"|1992<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500012005">{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT500012005 |title=The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2004 |publisher=Amnesty International |date=4 April 2005 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|MLI}}
|align="center"|1980
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|MRT}}
|align="center"|1987
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for [[sodomy]],<ref name="WorldSodomyLaws">{{cite web |url=http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/world.htm |title=Laws around the World |publisher=Sodomy Laws |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050204065022/http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/world.htm |archivedate=4 February 2005}}</ref> [[apostasy]]<ref name="barnabasfund CMD">{{cite web |last=Sookhdeo |first=Patrick |url=http://www.barnabasfund.org/news/archives/article.php?ID_news_items=295 |title=Islamic Teaching on the Consequences of Apostasy from Islam |publisher=Barnabas Fund |date=3 July 2006 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref> (no recorded executions).
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MUS}}
|align="center"|1987
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1995
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|MAR}}
|align="center"|1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for terrorism<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500072004?open&of=ENG-MAR"/> In December 2013 a parliamentary opposition group filed a bill to abolish the death penalty in Morocco. The MP who introduced the bill said he was "optimistic" about the bill passing "in view of the current reform movement in Morocco".<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201312.php?iddocumento=18300354&mover=0</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MOZ}}
|align="center"|1986
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Abolished November 1990 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|NAM}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1990
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Last execution when occupied by South Africa was in 1988. Abolished March 1990 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|NER}}
|align="center"|1976
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|NGA}}
|align="center"|2013<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=17306975&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for sodomy,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/nigeria/nigeria.htm |title=Nigeria |publisher=Sodomy Laws |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060111013242/http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/nigeria/nigeria.htm |archivedate=11 January 2006}}</ref> kidnapping. Each of the 36 states has its own laws. In the north of the country, Sharia (Islamic law) is used. In [[Imo State]], a bill that provided capital punishment for kidnapping was signed into law. Southern states of Nigeria have imposed a moratorium on the death penalty since 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcoalition.org/worldday.html |title=World Day |publisher=World Coalition Against the Death Penalty}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|RWA}}
|align="center"|1998
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2007<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/27/rwanda.execution.reut/index.html |publisher=CNN | title=Rwanda's ban on executions helps bring genocide justice | date=27 July 2007 | accessdate=2 May 2010}}</ref>
|Since some of the perpetrators of the [[Rwandan genocide]] fled to countries that refuse to extradite suspects to countries that use capital punishment, the Rwandan parliament voted to abolish capital punishment in 2007.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|STP}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1975
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Abolished September 1990 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SEN}}
|align="center"|1967
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2004
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SYC}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1976
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1993
|Abolished June 1993 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|SLE}}
|align="center"|1998
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/pt-br/library/info/AFR51/009/2004/en |title=Sierra Leone: Amnesty International expresses dismay at 10 death sentences for treason |publisher=Amnesty International |date=21 December 2004 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref> murder; [[aggravated robbery]]. Under the [[Special Court for Sierra Leone]] the death penalty is not a punishment for [[war crimes]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|SOM}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=19301954</ref>
|align="center"|14+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]], [[firing squad]] or [[stoning]]. Somalia is the only African state that carries out public executions. The [[Transitional Federal Government]] laws allowed for execution (in the limited area of the country it used to control) for murder and adultery.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ZAF}}
|align="center"|1989
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1995<ref>{{cite SAFLII|litigants=S v Makwanyane and Another|court=ZACC|year=1995|num=3|pinpoint=151|parallelcite=1995 (3) S.A. 391}}</ref>
|The last execution by the South African government was on 14 November 1989. An execution occurred in the internationally unrecognised "[[Bantustan|homeland]]" of [[Venda]] in 1991.<ref name="richard-clark"/> Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional by the [[Constitutional Court of South Africa|Constitutional Court]] on 6 June 1995 in the case of ''[[S v Makwanyane and Another]]''. In 1997 the Criminal Law Amendment Act formally removed the invalidated provisions from the statute-book, and made provision for the resentencing of prisoners previously sentenced to death.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=70763 |title=Government Gazette |publisher=Republic of South Africa |volume=390 |issue=18519 |date=19 December 1997}}</ref> On 25 May 2005 the Constitutional Court ordered that all remaining death sentences in the country be set aside and the prisoners resentenced as soon as possible.<ref>{{cite SAFLII|litigants=Sibiya and Others v Director of Public Prosecutions: Johannesburg High Court and Others|court=ZACC|year=2005|num=6|parallelcite=2005 (5) SA 315 (CC)}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|South Sudan}}
|align="center"|2013<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201311.php?iddocumento=17312718&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason; insurgency, banditry, sabotage or terrorism resulting in death; perjury in a capital case leading to wrongful execution; murder; attempted murder causing injury by a person sentenced to life for a previous murder; brigandage with murder; and drug dealing under aggravated circumstances.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.goss-online.org/magnoliaPublic/en/Laws--Legislation--Policies/mainColumnParagraphs/0/content_files/file12/15.pdf |title=Acts Supplement |work=The Southern Sudan Gazette |volume=1 |issue=1 |date=10 February 2009 |publisher=Ministry Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|SDN}}
|align="center"|2014<ref name="handsoffcain.info"/>
|align="center"|23+
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for sodomy,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/sudan/sudan.htm |title=Sudan |publisher=Sodomy Laws |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070212133424/http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/sudan/sudan.htm |archivedate=12 February 2007}}</ref> waging war against the state,<ref>{{cite news |last=Ramani |first=Ken |url=http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/8704.html |title=Sudan: Attorney General expects death penalty for islamist coup plotters |work=The East African Standard |location=Kenya |date=28 March 2005}}</ref> [[apostasy]],<ref name="barnabasfund CMD"/> prostitution, treason, acts that may endanger the independence or unity of the state, murder, armed robbery, [[weapon possession]] and [[weapons smuggling|smuggling]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|SWZ}}
|align="center"|1983<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.southerndomains.com/Newspaper/Archive/0202/Column.html#23 |title=Swaziland Moves Toward Execution By Lethal Injection; Hangman Unavailable |work=The Clarion Issue |volume=3 |issue=2 |date=February–March 2002 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030418180636/http://www.southerndomains.com/Newspaper/Archive/0202/Column.html#23 |archivedate=18 April 2003}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cidi.org/humanitarian/irin/safrica/00a/0020.html |title=IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 21 |publisher=Center for International Disaster Information |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050430201413/http://www.cidi.org/humanitarian/irin/safrica/00a/0020.html |archivedate=30 April 2005}}</ref> treason
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|TZA}}
|align="center"|1994
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; treason
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|TGO}}
|align="center"|1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/pt-br/library/info/ACT53/004/2002/en |title=Death Penalty News: September 2002 |publisher=Amnesty International |date=31 August 2002 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2009<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8116293.stm |title=Togo abolishes the death penalty |publisher=BBC News |date=24 June 2009 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|TUN}}
|align="center"|1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; violence and aggression; attacks against the external security of the state. On 6 January 2014 the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) voted for maintaining capital punishment in the upcoming constitution in Tunisia. The votes were by 135 yes out of a total of 174.<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201401.php?iddocumento=18300101&mover=2</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|UGA}}
|align="center"|2005<ref>{{cite news |last=Kiapi |first=Evelyn |url=http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35479 |title=Death Penalty: Uganda's Laws Favour Execution |publisher=Inter Press Service News Agency |date=14 November 2006 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder.<ref>http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/11/death-penalty-ugandas-laws-favour-execution/</ref> In 2009, the [[Supreme Court of Uganda|Supreme Court]] upheld a 2005 [[Constitutional Court of Uganda|Constitutional Court]] ruling that although the death penalty was constitutional, its use as a mandatory punishment for certain crimes was not.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR59/001/2009/en |title=Uganda: Amnesty International calls on the Ugandan government to abolish the death penalty |date=22 January 2009 |accessdate=7 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|ZMB}}
|align="center"|1997
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; aggravated robbery; high treason. President [[Levy Mwanawasa]] stated in 2004 that "For as long as I remain President, I will not execute a death warrant."<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500012005"/> (He died in office in 2008.)
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|ZWE}}
|align="center"|2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livewire.amnesty.org/2013/11/13/a-big-step-closer-to-abolishing-the-death-penalty-in-zimbabwe/ |title=A big step closer to abolishing the death penalty in Zimbabwe? |publisher=Amnesty International }}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Current capital crimes are drug trafficking; treason; murder; mutiny.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=15000827 |title=The Constitution of Zimbabwe at Chapter 3, section 12... |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=1 January 2011 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|}

==Americas==
Of the 35 independent states in the Americas that are UN members:

*16 (46%) have abolished it.
* 4 (11%) retain it for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as in time of war).
*13 (37%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is under a moratorium.
* 2 (6%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.

The information above is accurate {{as of|March 2015|lc=y}}, when Suriname abolished the death penalty.

* The United States was the only country in the Americas to carry out executions in 2015. The United States carries out more executions than any other liberal democracy (as defined by [[Freedom House]]) in the world. The only other country in the Americas which practices capital punishment is St. Kitts & Nevis. The most recent countries to abolish the death penalty in the Americas are Bolivia (2007), Argentina (2009), and Suriname (2015).

Executions in the Americas in 2014: United States (35).<ref name="deathpenaltyinfo.org">http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-list-2014</ref>

''Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the [[Image:Sort both.svg]] icon.''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[#Legend|Key]]
! style="width:13em;" | Country
! style="width:7em;"  | Year of last execution
! style="width:5em;" data-sort-type="number" | Executions 2014
! style="width:7em;"  | Year abolished
! class="unsortable"  | Notes
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|ATG}}
|align="center"|1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ARG}}
|align="center"|1916
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2009 (military)<br />1853 (civilian)<ref>http://www.biblioteca.jus.gov.ar/constitucionargentina1853.html</ref>
|Constitution states "The penalty of death for political offences, all kinds of torture, and flogging, are forever abolished."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/interes/constitucion/english.php |title=Constitution of the Argentine Nation (Section 18) |publisher=Argentine Senate |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> The Military Code of Justice (including the death penalty) was abolished on 6 August 2008 taking effect the following year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Valente |first=Marcela |url=http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43499 |title=Last Vestiges of Capital Punishment Abolished |publisher=Inter Press Service News Agency |date=8 August 2008 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|BHS}}
|align="center"|2000
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason; piracy; murder
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|BRB}}
|align="center"|1984<ref name="richard-clark"/>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; treason. Presently under review before the [[IACHR]] despite strong national support.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hang them! |url=http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/hang-them/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Nation (Barbados)|Nation Newspaper]] |date=10 October 2010 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20120125051317/http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/hang-them/ |archivedate=25 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Guy's View: To hang or not to hang |author=Guyson Mayers, R.E. |url=http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=regional&NewsID=12847 |newspaper=[[The Barbados Advocate]] |isbn= |date=19 September 2010 |at= |accessdate=22 December 2010 |trans_title= }}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|BLZ}}
|align="center"|1985<ref name="richard-clark"/>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder, except where extenuating circumstances can be proved<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR16/002/2001 |title=Belize: Death Penalty, Gilroy "Hooty" Wade, Oscar "Negro" Catzim Mendez, Glenford Baptist |publisher=Amnesty International |date=20 November 2001 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BOL}}
|align="center"|1974
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2013
|Abolished for ordinary crimes 1997. "The death penalty does not exist" (Article 15).
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#D4DF5A"|
|{{flagcountry|BRA}}
|align="center"|1876
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
Brazil has always maintained the death penalty as part of its military code but capital punishment for civil offenses was abolished after Brazil became a republic in 1889, then reinstated and abolished again twice (1938–53 and 1969–78).<ref name="Lei 6620">{{cite web |url=http://www.planalto.gov.br/CCIVIL/LEIS/1970-1979/L6620.htm |title=Law 6620, 17 December 1978 |publisher=Presidency of Brazil |language=Portuguese |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080416164224/http://www.planalto.gov.br/CCIVIL/LEIS/1970-1979/L6620.htm |archivedate=16 April 2008}}</ref><ref name="Decreto-Lei 431">{{cite web|url=http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Decreto-Lei/1937-1946/Del0431.htm |title=Law Decree 431, 18 May 1938 |accessdate=3 February 2009 |publisher=Presidency of Brazil |language=Portuguese }}</ref><ref name="Lei 1802">{{cite web|url=http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/LEIS/1950-1969/L1802.htm#art47 |title=Law 1802, 5 January 1953 |accessdate=3 February 2009 |publisher=Presidency of Brazil |language=Portuguese }}</ref><ref name="Decreto-Lei 898">{{cite web|url=http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil/Decreto-Lei/1965-1988/Del0898.htm |title=Law Decree 898, 29 September 1969 |publisher=Presidency of Brazil |language=Portuguese |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090429043946/http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil/Decreto-Lei/1965-1988/Del0898.htm |archivedate=9 February 2013}}</ref> Only one person was ever sentenced to death during the Republican period, in 1969, and the execution was not carried out.
The current [[Constitution of Brazil]] (1988) expressly forbids the use of capital punishment by the civil penal justice system.<ref name="Brazilian Embassy UK">{{cite web|url=http://www.brazil.org.uk/humanrights/deathpenalty.html |title=Death penalty in Brazil |accessdate=3 February 2009 |publisher=Brazilian Embassy in London |year=2002 }}</ref>  For more information see [[Capital punishment in Brazil]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CAN}}
|align="center"|1962 (military c.1945)
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1976
|Abolished in 1976 for ordinary crimes; abolished 1998 for military offences (last used in 1945). For more information see [[Capital punishment in Canada]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#D4DF5A"|
|{{flagcountry|CHL}}
|align="center"|1985
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Abolished from civil justice in 2001
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|COL}}
|align="center"|1909
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1910
|Abolished in 1910 by Constitutional reform. Prohibited by the [[Colombian Constitution of 1991]]: "The right to life is inviolable. There will be no death penalty."
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CRI}}
|align="center"|1859<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bestwesterncostarica.com/tourist_pura_human.html |title=Tourist information |publisher=Best Western |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040614122717/http://www.bestwesterncostarica.com/tourist_pura_human.html |archivedate=14 June 2004}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1877
|Abolished 1877 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|CUB}}
|align="center"|2003<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2941041.stm |publisher=BBC News  | title=Cuba ferry hijackers executed | date=11 April 2003}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Firing squad. Death penalty for murder, attempted murder, hijacking, acts of terrorism, treason, political offenses{{clarify|reason=all political offenses or some?|date=February 2015}}, child rape, molestation of a child under 12 years of age with aggravating factors, rape of an adult with aggravating factors, rape of an adult that results in death, illness or grievous bodily harm, robbery with aggravating factors, drug offenses, production of child pornography, child trafficking, child prostitution, child corruption, piracy. ''De facto'' abolitionist as the last execution took place on 11 April 2003. The last death sentences were commuted in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Frank |first=Marc |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/29/idUSN28211608 |title=Cuba's Raul Castro commutes most death sentences |publisher=Reuters |date=28 April 2008 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> See also [[Capital punishment in Cuba]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|DMA}}
|align="center"|1986
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|DOM}}
|align="center"|1966
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1966
|Abolished in 1966 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ECU}}
|align="center"|1884
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1906
|Abolished 1906 by Constitution. See [[Capital punishment in Ecuador]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#D4DF5A"|
|{{flagcountry|SLV}}
|align="center"|1973
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|May be imposed only in cases provided by military laws during a state of international war.<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500092005">{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT50/006/1996 |title=Constitutional prohibitions of the death penalty |publisher=Amnesty International |date=31 May 1996 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> Abolished for other crimes 1983.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|GRD}}
|align="center"|1978
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|GTM}}
|align="center"|2000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR34/023/2000 |title=Guatemala: Death Penalty/imminent execution |publisher=Amnesty International |date=19 June 2000 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Lethal injection]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|HTI}}
|align="center"|1972
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1987
|Abolished 1987 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|GUY}}
|align="center"|1997
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for terrorist acts;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/guy-summary-eng |title=Annual Report 2004 – Guyana |publisher=Amnesty International |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040815045107/http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/guy-summary-eng |archivedate=15 August 2004}}</ref> murder; mass murder; rape; willful murder; treason; torture. The constitution states that it must not be a mandatory punishment.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|HND}}
|align="center"|1940
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1956
|Abolished 1956 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|JAM}}
|align="center"|1988<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/jam-summary-eng |title=Annual Report 2004 – Jamaica |publisher=Amnesty International |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040815050226/http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/jam-summary-eng |archivedate=15 August 2004}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santegidio.org/pdm/news2004/pdm20040717_b.htm |title=No to the Death Penalty |publisher=Community of Sant'Egidio |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MEX}}
|align="center"|1961 – Military <br>1937 – Civilian
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1976
|Abolished for all crimes in 2005.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7553633.stm |publisher=BBC News  | title=Mexican fury grows at kidnappings | date=11 August 2008 | accessdate=27 March 2010 | first=Duncan | last=Kennedy}}</ref> See also [[Capital punishment in Mexico]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|NIC}}
|align="center"|1930
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1979
|Abolished 1979 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|PAN}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1903
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1903
|Abolished 1903 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|PRY}}
|align="center"|1928
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1992
|Abolished 1992 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#D4DF5A"|
|{{flagcountry|PER}}
|align="center"|1979
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason; terrorism; espionage; genocide; mutiny; desertion in times of war.<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500092005"/> Abolished for other crimes 1979.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|KNA}}
|align="center"|2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR59/001/2008/en |title=St Kitts and Nevis: Execution is a shameless act |publisher=Amnesty International |date=22 December 2008 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|LCA}}
|align="center"|1995
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; treason
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|VCT}}
|align="center"|1995
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; treason
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SUR}}
|align="center"|1982
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=19301659</ref>
|In March 2015, the National Assembly approved legislation formally abolishing the death penalty in Suriname. But the legislators raised the highest prison term limits from 30 to 50 years in what is seen as a compromise to amending the Criminal code. See [[Capital punishment in Suriname]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|TTO}}
|align="center"|1999
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; treason<ref>{{cite web |url=http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/V05/819/20/PDF/V0581920.pdf?OpenElement |title=Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty |publisher=United Nations Economic and Social Council |date=9 March 2005 |page=9}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|USA}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=19300299&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|35<ref name="deathpenaltyinfo.org"/>
|align="center"|n/a
|Methods vary by state, federal, and military policy, but include [[lethal injection]], [[hanging]], [[firing squad]], the [[electric chair]], and the [[gas chamber]]. Federal law provides the death penalty for many homicide-related crimes, espionage, terrorism, treason, and drug trafficking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=29&did=192 |title=Federal Laws Providing for the Death Penalty |publisher=Death Penalty Information Center}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Pinkard |first=Eric |url=https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=24+Vt.+L.+Rev.+1&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=f248847387e0907bbaa818f45b826682 |title=The death penalty for drug kingpins: constitutional and international implications |journal=Vermont Law Review |date=Fall 1999 |quote=In 1994 Congress enacted the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA) with provisions permitting the imposition of the death penalty on Drug Kingpins. The FDPA is unprecedented in American legal history in that the death penalty can be imposed in cases where the Drug Kingpin does not take a human life.}}</ref> 31 of the 50 states currently have the death penalty. Of the non-state territories, American Samoa still has capital punishment as a local statute,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=16309831 |title=American Samoa: Governor moves to repeal death penalty |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=11 September 2012 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> and the others have abolished it. In practice, the death penalty is used for murder-related charges and terrorism. Sentences of death may be handed down by a jury or a judge (upon a bench trial or a guilty plea). See [[Capital punishment in the United States]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|URY}}
|align="center"|1905
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1907
|Abolished 1907 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|VEN}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1830
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1863
|Abolished 1863 by Constitution
|}

==Asia-Pacific==
Of the 57 independent countries in the Asia-Pacific region that are UN member or observer states:

*20 (35%) have abolished it.
* 2  (4%) retain it for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as in time of war).
*12 (21%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is under a moratorium.
*23 (40%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.

The information above is accurate {{as of|2015|lc=y}}, when Fiji abolished the death penalty.

*In 2014, Asia had the worlds four leading practitioners of capital punishment – China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. China continues to execute more people than the rest of the world put together. The most recent countries to abolish capital punishment in the Asia-Pacific region are; Timor-Leste (2002), Bhutan (2004), Samoa (2004), Philippines (2006), Kyrgyzstan (2007), Uzbekistan (2008), Mongolia (2012), and Fiji (2015).

Executions in 2014: China  (1000+), North Korea (+), Iran (289+), Iraq (61+), Saudi Arabia (90+), Yemen (23+), Jordan (11), Afghanistan (6), Vietnam (3+), Japan (3), Palestine (26+), Malaysia (2+), Singapore (2), UAE (1).<ref name="amnesty.org"/>

''Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the [[Image:Sort both.svg]] icon.''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[#Legend|Key]]
! style="width:13em;" | Country
! style="width:7em;"  | Year of last execution
! style="width:5em;" data-sort-type="number" | Executions 2014<ref name="amnestyusa.org"/>
! style="width:7em;"  | Year abolished
! class="unsortable"  | Notes
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|AFG}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201502.php?iddocumento=19301525&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|6
|align="center"|n/a
|Hanging; shooting. Current laws allow capital punishment for apostasy,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354246/One-legged-Afghan-Red-Cross-worker-hanged-converting-Christianity.html |location=London |work=Daily Mail  | title=One-legged Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity | date=7 February 2011}}</ref> [[homosexuality]], and murder.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|AUS}}
|align="center"|1967<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/death_penalty/australia.php |title=Death penalty in Australia |publisher=New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1985
|Capital punishment was abolished in [[Queensland]] in 1922, [[Tasmania]] in 1968, The [[Northern Territory]]; [[Australian Capital Territory]] and the [[Government of Australia|Commonwealth]] in 1973, [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] in 1975, South Australia in 1976, Western Australia in 1984 and [[New South Wales]] in 1985. See also [[capital punishment in Australia]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|BHR}}
|align="center"|2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE11/003/2010/en |title=Bahrain: Bangladeshi man executed in Bahrain |publisher=Amnesty International |date=9 July 2010 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for premeditated murder; plotting to topple the regime; collaborating with a foreign hostile country; threatening the life of the Emir; defiance of military orders in time of war or [[martial law]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|BGD}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=19302401</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Hanging. Death penalty for murder;<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.zeenews.com/links/articles.asp?aid=212318&sid=SAS |title=MP murder case: Bangla court awards death penalty to 22 |publisher=Zee News}} {{dead link|date=February 2013}}</ref> drug offences;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Bangladesh |title=Bangladesh – Laws |publisher=Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> [[sodomy]], trafficking in children for immoral or illegal purposes; trafficking in women for purposes of prostitution, terrorism, rape, armed robbery, perjury causing wrongful execution, treason<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27944.htm |title=2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – Bangladesh |publisher=United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor |date=25 February 2004 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> and war crimes.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BTN}}
|align="center"|1974<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500012005"/>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2004
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|BRU}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1984
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Last execution when a protectorate of Britain was in 1957. Death penalty for murder; unlawful possession of firearms and explosives; possession of heroin or morphine of more than 15&nbsp;grams, cocaine of more than 30&nbsp;grams, cannabis of more than 500&nbsp;grams, syabu or methamphetamine of more than 50&nbsp;grams, or opium of more than 1.2&nbsp;kg<ref name="statebrunei">{{cite web |url=http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/brunei.html |title=Brunei – Country Specific Information |publisher=United States Bureau of Consular Affairs |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> A new penal code was introduced in April 2014 and introduced the death penalty for male same-sex acts if one of the parties is Muslim (by stoning); rape; adultery; sodomy; extramarital sexual relations for Muslims; insulting any verse of the Quran and Hadith; blasphemy; declaring oneself a prophet or non-Muslim; and murder.<ref name="statebrunei" /><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/15/brunei-gay-sex-law_n_5154960.html)</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|KHM}}
|align="center"|1989
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1989
|Abolished in 1989 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flag|China|People's Republic of China}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=19300247&mover=0</ref><ref name="smh.com.au">http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-billionaire-mining-tycoon-liu-han-is-executed-over-his-links-to-a-mafiastyle-gang-20150209-139w2z.html</ref>
|align="center"|1000+
|align="center"|n/a
|Shooting; lethal injection. China carries out far more executions than all of the rest of the world combined, and is the only country in the world that routinely executes thousands of people every year.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/bancadati/index.php?tipotema=arg&idtema=15000608 |title=Executions in 2009 |publisher=Hands Off Cain |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> On 25 February 2011 China's newly revised Criminal Law reduced the number of crimes punishable by death by 13, from 68 to 55.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php |title=Saudi Arabia: Man beheaded after 30 yrs on death row |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=5 February 2013 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> Among these are embezzlement, rape (particularly of children), fraud, bombing, people trafficking, piracy, corruption, arson, murder, poaching, endangerment of national security and terrorism. Even the higher sections of Chinese society are not exempt from the death penalty, as a billionaire was recently put to death.<ref name="smh.com.au"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa170032004 |title=People's Republic of China: Executed "according to law"? The death penalty in China |publisher=Amnesty International |date=22 March 2004 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> See also [[capital punishment in the People's Republic of China]].
{{flagcountry|HKG}} and {{flagcountry|MAC}}, have separate legal systems and have abolished the death penalty. In Hong Kong it was abolished in 1993 by the then British colonial government, and last used in 1966 (see [[capital punishment in Hong Kong]]). In Macau it was last used in the 19th century and abolished in 1976 when Portugal abolished the death penalty on all its territories (see [[capital punishment in Macau]]).
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|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|FJI}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1970
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.worldcoalition.org/fiji-abolition-death-penalty-military-penal-code-all-crimes.html</ref>
|Last execution when a colony of Britain was in 1964. The death penalty for crimes under the [[Fiji Military Forces|Republic of Fiji Military Forces Act]] was abolished in Feb 2015. Abolished for other crimes 1979.
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|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|IND}}
|align="center"|2013<ref>{{cite news | title = Afzal Guru hanged in secrecy, buried in Tihar Jail | date = 9 February 2013 | url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/afzal-guru-hanged-in-secrecy-buried-in-tihar-jail/article4396289.ece | work = [[The Hindu]] | accessdate = 9 February 2013 | location=Chennai, India | first1=Sandeep | last1=Joshi | first2=Ashok | last2=Kumar}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
| {{main|Capital punishment in India}} Hanging. Death penalty for murder; Abetting the suicide of a minor, mentally ill person, or intoxicated person; Rape if the perpetrator inflicts injuries that result in the victim's death or incapacitation in a persistent vegetative state, or is a repeat offender; Being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offense; Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure a conviction of a capital offense; Waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against the Government of India; Abetting a mutiny in the armed forces (if a mutiny occurs as a result), engaging in mutiny; Kidnapping, in the course of which the victim was held for ransom or other coercive purposes; Banditry with murder; Drug trafficking in cases of repeat offenses; Aiding or abetting an act of [[Sati (practice)|Sati]]. Military offences may be punished with a firing squad.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|IDN}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/16/six-drug-convicts-be-executed-sunday-ago.html |title=Six drug convicts be executed Sunday: AGO |publisher=The Jakarta Post |date=16 January 2015}}</ref>
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|align="center"|n/a
|[[Firing squad]]. Death penalty for murder; drug trafficking;<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500012005"/> terrorism. 8 people including overseas nationals executed on 29 April 2015<ref name="bbc 5368922">{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5368922.stm |publisher=BBC News  | title=Executions spark Indonesia unrest | date=22 September 2006 | accessdate=2 May 2010}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|IRN}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=19300077</ref>
|align="center"|289+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Firing squad]]; [[hanging]]. Iran is second only to China in the number of executions it carries out—executing hundreds every year.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Death penalty for murder; armed robbery; drug trafficking; kidnapping; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; espionage; terrorism; apostasy (no recorded executions). See also [[capital punishment in Iran]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|IRQ}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=19301820</ref>
|align="center"|61+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]. Death penalty for murder; endangering national security; distributing drugs; rape; attacks on transport convoys; financing and execution of terrorism.<ref>{{cite news |last=Baker |first=Luke |url=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&art_id=qw1091976122311B262 |title=Iraq reimposes death penalty |publisher=IOL News |date=8 August 2004 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> Suspended in June 2003 after [[2003 invasion of Iraq|2003 invasion]]; reinstated August 2004.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shumway |first=Chris |url=http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=799 |title=Human rights groups condemn Iraq's death penalty decision |work=The New Standard |date=10 August 2004 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/06/1086460170489.html |title=Iraq to restore death penalty |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=7 June 2004 |accessdate=9 February 2013}}</ref> A total of 447 people were executed between then and the end of March 2013, with 129 in 2012 alone.<ref>[http://www.aina.org/news/20130402153704.htm 4 Al Qaeda Leaders Executed in Iraq (AINA)]</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#D4DF5A"|
|{{flagcountry|ISR}}
|align="center"|1962
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]; [[firing squad]]. Death penalty for [[crimes against humanity]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.israellawcenter.org/news111402.shtml |title=Should those who assist suicide bombers be given the death penalty? |work=The Jerusalem Report |date=18 November 2002 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050406025426/http://www.israellawcenter.org/news111402.shtml |archivedate=6 April 2005}}</ref> high treason, genocide, and crimes against the Jewish people during wartime. Only two executions since independence in 1948: accused traitor [[Meir Tobiansky]] (posthumously acquitted) and [[Holocaust]] architect [[Adolf Eichmann]]. Abolished for other crimes 1954.
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|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|JPN}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=18305634</ref>
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]. Treason; murder. Prosecutors push for the death penalty only in the case of multiple murders, or single murder with aggravating circumstances.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lane |first=Charles |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11306-2005Jan15.html |title=Why Japan Still Has the Death Penalty |work=The Washington Post |date=16 January 2005 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> Judges usually impose death penalty in case of multiple homicides. Between 1946 and 2003 766 people were sentenced to death, 608 of whom were executed. For 40 months from 1989 to 1993 successive ministers of justice refused to authorise executions, which amounted to an informal moratorium. See also [[capital punishment in Japan]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|JOR}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31124900</ref>
|align="center"|11
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/aug03.html |title=Executions in August 2003 |publisher=Capital Punishment U.K. |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040216192609/http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/aug03.html |archivedate=16 February 2004}}</ref>
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|bgcolor="#D4DF5A"|
|{{flagcountry|KAZ}}
|align="center"|2003<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT50/007/2004/en |title=The Death Penalty Worldwide: Developments in 2003 |publisher=Amnesty International |date=5 April 2004 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Currently capital punishment for terrorism and crimes in wartime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/200705.php?iddocumento=9317022&mover=0 |title=Kazakhstan Set To "Virtually" Abolish Death Penalty |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=16 May 2007 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> Moratorium since 17 December 2003. Abolished on 30 July 2009 for other crimes.<ref>{{cite web |last=Delaney |first=Greg |url=http://www.kazakhstanlive.com/2.aspx?ProdID=87bd92da-79e8-4556-b426-1633e35f9458&CatID=9f9f8034-6dd6-4f7e-adcf-0f6a7c0406d9&sr=100&page=1 |title=Death Penalty is Abolished in Kazakhstan |publisher=Kazakhstan Live |date=20 July 2009 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> On 28 March 2011 the Presidential Commission for Human Rights in Astana asked the government to abolish capital punishment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=15304099# |title=Kazakhstan: Towards definitive abolition |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=28 March 2011 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
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|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|PRK}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/04/north-korea-leader-kim-jong-un-executes-army-general-in-latest-purge-of-senior-officials-reports/</ref>
|align="center"|+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Firing squad]], [[Hanging]], [[Decapitation]]. North Korea performs public executions. Current laws allow the death penalty for prostitution;<ref name="cpuk_oct2008">{{cite web |url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/oct08.html |title=Executions in October 2008 |publisher=Capital Punishment U.K. |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> "drug transactions"; plots against national sovereignty; terrorism; treason against the Motherland by citizens; treason against the people; murder, rape, illegal entry, assault, hostile acts, inappropriate words, armed robbery, grand theft, nothing and more.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html#kp0162 |title=The Judiciary |work=North Korea: A Country Study |publisher=The Library of Congress |year=2009 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|KOR}}
|align="center"|1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT53/001/2003/en |title=Death Penalty News: December 2002 |publisher=Amnesty International |date=1 January 2003 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder, rebellion, conspiracy with foreign countries, robbery-homicide and other crimes.<ref>[[Capital punishment in South Korea]]</ref> There has been an unofficial moratorium on executions since [[President of South Korea|President]] [[Kim Dae-jung]] took office in February 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA25/003/2005 |title=South Korea: Death penalty abolition – historic opportunity |publisher=Amnesty International |date=19 April 2005 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> 
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|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|KIR}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1979
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1979
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|KWT}}
|align="center"|2013<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=17303246</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for drug trafficking; rape; murder
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|KGZ}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2007
|Kyrgyz authorities had extended a moratorium on executions each year since 1998. Abolished by constitution in 2007<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/06/0907D477-B87B-4AFF-9A6B-116AF711B057.html |title=Kyrgyzstan Abolishes Death Penalty |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=27 June 2007 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files_156/kyrgyzstan_396/abolition-of-the-death-penalty-by-kyrgyzstan-june-28-2007_9443.html |title=Abolition of the death penalty by Kyrgyzstan |date=28 June 2007 |publisher=France Diplomatie |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930062833/http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files_156/kyrgyzstan_396/abolition-of-the-death-penalty-by-kyrgyzstan-june-28-2007_9443.html |archivedate=30 September 2007}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|LAO}}
|align="center"|1989
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder, terrorism, treason<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/Lao-summary-eng |title=Annual Report 2003 – Laos |publisher=Amnesty International |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030705014254/http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/Lao-summary-eng |archivedate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|LBN}}
|align="center"|2004<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/01/18/wor05.html |title=Lebanon resumes executions after 5-year lull |work=Sunday Observer |location=Sri Lanka |date=18 January 2004 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]; [[firing squad]]. Death penalty for murder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/pt-br/library/info/MDE18/001/2004/en |title=Lebanon: Further Information on Death penalty/imminent execution |publisher=Amnesty International |date=15 January 2004 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|MYS}}
|align="center"|2014
|align="center"|2+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]. Death penalty mandatory for trafficking in dangerous drugs; discharging a firearm in the commission of a scheduled offense; accomplices in case of discharge of firearm; offenses against the [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]]'s person; murder. Discretionary for kidnapping; consorting with a person carrying or having possession of arms or explosives; waging or attempting to wage war or abetting the waging of war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, a Ruler or [[Yang di-Pertua Negeri]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Devaraj |first=Prema |url=http://aliran.com/archives/monthly/2003/6k.html |title=Is Capital Punishment Justified? |work=Aliran Monthly |year=2003 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
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|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|MDV}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1965
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Last execution when a colony of Britain was in 1952. Death penalty for murder<ref>{{cite web |last=Haleem |first=Adam |url=http://www.maldivesculture.com/maldives_murder01.html |title=Family demands death penalty |publisher=Maldives Culture |date=27 January 2002 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20020427194548/http://www.maldivesculture.com/maldives_murder01.html |archivedate=27 April 2002}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MHL}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1986
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1986
|Abolished in 1986 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MNG}}
|align="center"|2008
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2012
|After two years under an official moratorium, the State Great Khural had in 2012 formally acceded to the [[Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]] making Mongolia abolitionist. See: [[capital punishment in Mongolia]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|FSM}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1986
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1986
|Abolished in 1986 by Constitution
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|MMR}}
|align="center"|1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder, terrorism, high treason<ref>[http://www.derechos.org/news/archives/000506.html] {{dead link|date=February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|NRU}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1968
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for treason; piracy; murder
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|NPL}}
|align="center"|1979
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1997
|Abolished 1997 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|NZL}}
|align="center"|1957
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2007 (Cook Is.) <br>1989 (N.Z.)
|Abolished in New Zealand in 1989. In 2007 the Cook Islands became the last of New Zealand`s overseas territories to abolish capital punishment. See also [[capital punishment in New Zealand]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|OMN}}
|align="center"|2007
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; drug trafficking<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/oman |title=Annual Report 2002 – Oman |publisher=Amnesty International |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20021113122632/http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/mde/oman |archivedate=13 November 2002}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|PAK}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201501.php?iddocumento=19300135&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|{{Main|Capital punishment in Pakistan}}[[Hanging]]. Death penalty for murder, drug smuggling, terrorism, rape, unlawful assembly and blasphemy. 
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|PLW}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1994
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1994
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|State of Palestine}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201405.php?iddocumento=18304129&mover=2</ref><ref>http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/25/gaza-halt-executions</ref>
|align="center"|26+
|align="center"|n/a
| Suspected political dissidents, such as accused Israel collaborators, are frequently executed, often in the street, without trial.<ref>https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2014/08/hamas-must-end-summary-executions-informers-face-firing-squad/</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|PNG}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1975<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s2087787.htm "PNG urged to abandon death penalty"]. ''AM''. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 12 November 2007.</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Last execution when under Australian administration in November 1954. Treason; piracy; attempted piracy; willful murder. Papua New Guinea voted in 2013 to introduce the death penalty for crimes such as rape, robbery and sorcery-related murder.<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.3news.co.nz/Amnesty-International-condemns-PNG-death-penalty/tabid/417/articleID/299536/Default.aspx|work=3 News NZ |title= PNG death penalty 'horrific' - Amnesty| date=29 May 2013}}</ref> See also [[capital punishment in Papua New Guinea]].
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|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|PHL}}
|align="center"|1999<ref>{{cite web |last=Gluckman |first=Ron |url=http://www.gluckman.com/Death'Penalty.htm |title=Waiting to Go |work=Asiaweek |date=23 July 1999 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2006
|Abolished in 1987 under the present [[Constitution of the Philippines|constitution]], re-introduced in 1993, re-abolished on 24 June 2006 under [[Republic Acts of the Philippines|Republic Act]] No. 9346. 
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|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|QAT}}
|align="center"|2003<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/03/12/stories/2003031208371200.htm | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=Indian executed in Qatar | date=12 March 2003}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for espionage;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE22/001/2002 |title=Qatar: Death Penalty, Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali |publisher=Amnesty International |date=28 October 2002 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> threat to national security;<ref>{{cite news |last=Kiss |first=Jemima |url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1331.shtml |title=Crusading journalist wins case against Al-Jazeera |publisher=Journalism.co.uk |date=6 April 2005 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> apostasy(no recorded executions)
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|WSM}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1962
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2004<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paclii.org/ws/legis/num_act/codpaa2004388/ |title=Crimes (Abolition of Death Penalty) Amendment Act 2004 |publisher=Samoa Sessional Legislation |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|SAU}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/news/index.php?iddocumento=19300018&srcday=0&srcmonth=0&srcyear=0&mover=</ref>
|align="center"|90+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Decapitation]]. Saudi Arabia performs public executions. Current laws allow the death penalty for many violent and nonviolent offenses, including homosexuality, pedophilia, atheism;<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594139/Saudi-Arabia-declares-atheists-terrorists-new-laws.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | title=Saudi Arabia declares atheists terrorists under new laws targeting citizens who 'call for secular thought in any form'}}</ref> adultery, murder; apostasy;<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/saudi-arabia-five-beheaded-and-crucified-amid-disturbing-rise-executions-2013-05-21 |agency=Amnesty   | title=Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and 'crucified' amid 'disturbing' rise in executionsa | date=21 May 2013}}</ref> drug trafficking; rape and armed robbery;<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/women-executed-by-sword-in-saudi-arabia/story-e6frfku0-1226165421702 |agency=Agence France-Presse   | title=Women executed by sword in Saudi Arabia | date=13 October 2011 | work=AFP}}</ref> drug offenses; witchcraft; sexual misconduct. Method most often used is beheading by a sword. Bodies may be put on public display.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|SGP}}
|align="center"|2015<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=19302704&mover=0</ref> 
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]. Death penalty for murder; kidnapping; treason; certain firearm offenses; trafficking in more than 15&nbsp;grams of heroin or morphine, 30&nbsp;grams of cocaine or 500&nbsp;grams of cannabis<ref>{{cite news |last=Tan |first=Amy |url=http://www.singapore-window.org/sw02/020412re.htm |title=Singapore death penalty shrouded in silence |publisher=Reuters |date=12 April 2002 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> See also [[capital punishment in Singapore]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SLB}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1978
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1978
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|LKA}}
|align="center"|1976
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder; perjury causing an innocent person to be executed; rape; drug trafficking. Moratorium since 1976.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|SYR}}
|align="center"|2013<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-industrial-scale-killing-syria-war-crimes</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]. Syria performs public executions. Current laws allow the death penalty for treason; murder; political acts such as bearing arms against Syria in the ranks of the enemy, desertion of the armed forces to the enemy and acts of incitement under martial law or in wartime; violent robbery; rape; membership in the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]; drug trafficking
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|TJK}}
|align="center"|2004
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for murder with aggravating circumstances; rape with aggravating circumstances; terrorism; [[biocide]]; genocide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/49/topic/11 |title=Tajikistan: Death Penalty |publisher=Legislationline |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> Moratorium introduced 30 April 2004 by President [[Emomalii Rahmon]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|THA}}
|align="center"|2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/thailand-first-executions-six-years-20090826 |title=Thailand carries out first executions in six years |publisher=Amnesty International |date=26 August 2009 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty for 35 crimes including regicide; sedition or rebellion; offenses committed against the external security of Thailand; murder or attempted murder of a foreign head of state; bribery; arson; rape; murder with intent; kidnapping; robbery resulting in death. For a full list see [http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Thailand411-2.pdf here (PDF)]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|TLS}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 2002
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2002<ref name="East Timor">{{cite web |url=http://timor-leste.gov.tl/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Constitution_RDTL_ENG.pdf |title=Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste |publisher=Government of Timor-Leste |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|Death penalty suspended following UN administration in 1999 when still a province of Indonesia. Abolished by constitution 2002.<ref name="East Timor"/>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|TON}}
|align="center"|1982<ref name="richard-clark"/>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Hanging]]. Death penalty for treason, murder. See [[capital punishment in Tonga]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|TKM}}
|align="center"|1997
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1999
|Abolished 1999 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|TUV}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1978
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1978
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|ARE}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.arabnews.com/news/513296 |title=Sri Lankan executed in UAE for murder |publisher=Arab News |date=22 January 2014 |accessdate=29 May 2014}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|n/a
|Death penalty by firing squad for murder; drug offenses;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/001/2002/en |title=United Arab Emirates (UAE): |publisher=Amnesty International |date=2 April 2002 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> rape; treason; aggravated robbery; terrorism
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|UZB}}
|align="center"|2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR62/005/2005/en |title=Uzbekistan: Further information on: Fear of imminent execution/torture and ill-treatment |publisher=Amnesty International |date=7 April 2005 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2008
|[[President of Uzbekistan|President]] [[Islam Karimov]] signed a decree on 1 August 2005 that replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment on 1 January 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislationline.org/legislation.php?tid=144&lid=4241&less=false |title=Presidential Decree on the abolition of the death penalty |publisher=Legislationline |date=19 August 2005 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071028100531/http://www.legislationline.org/legislation.php?tid=144&lid=4241&less=false |archivedate=28 October 2007}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|VUT}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1980
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1980
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|VNM}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/201407.php?iddocumento=18306423&mover=0</ref>
|align="center"|3+
|align="center"|n/a
|[[Lethal injection]]. Death penalty for treason; taking action to overthrow the government; espionage; rebellion; banditry; terrorism; sabotage; hijacking; destruction of national security projects; undermining peace; war crimes; crimes against humanity; manufacturing, concealing and trafficking in narcotic substances; murder; rape; robbery; embezzlement; fraud<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA41/023/2003/en |title=Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: The death penalty – inhumane and ineffective |publisher=Amnesty International |date=27 August 2003 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|YEM}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=17302487&mover=2 |title=Yemen: Minor put to death for murder |publisher=Hands Off Cain |date=9 March 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|23+
|align="center"|n/a
|Shooting. Yemen performs public executions. Current laws allow the death penalty for murder;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/pt-br/library/info/MDE31/005/2005/en |title=Yemen: Further information on Imminent execution, Fuad 'Ali Mohsin al-Shahari |publisher=Amnesty International |date=6 April 2005 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> adultery;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE31/004/2004/en |title=Yemen: Further Information on: Death by stoning and flogging |publisher=Amnesty International |date=6 September 2004 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> homosexuality;<ref name="WorldSodomyLaws"/><ref name="glas.org signor">{{cite web |last=Signorile |first=Michelangelo |url=http://www.glas.org/ahbab/Articles/signor.htm |title=Hate Crimes: Like the Taliban, America's Middle East Allies Tyrannize Gays and Women |publisher=Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> apostasy<ref name="barnabasfund CMD"/> (no recorded executions)
|}

==Europe==
Of the 49 independent states in Europe that are UN members or have UN Observer status:

*48 (98%) have abolished it (last in 2012 when Latvia abolished capital punishment in all circumstances).
* 1  (2%) maintains the death penalty in both law and practice – Belarus.

Since 1997, Belarus is the only country in Europe to still carry out executions. 2009 was the first year in recorded history when Europe was completely free of executions. This century the following European countries have abolished capital punishment; Ukraine (2000), Malta (2000), Cyprus (2002), Turkey (2004), Moldova (2005), Georgia (2006), Albania (2007), Russia (2009), and Latvia (2012).

{{Main|Capital punishment in Europe}}

Executions in Europe in 2014: Belarus (3)<ref name="theguardian.com">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/18/belarus-executes-two-metro-bombing</ref><ref name="icomdp.org">http://www.icomdp.org/2014/04/execution-of-pavel-selyun/</ref>

''Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the [[Image:Sort both.svg]] icon.''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[#Legend|Key]] || Country || Year of last execution || data-sort-type="number" | Executions 2014<ref name="amnestyusa.org"/> || Year abolished || Notes
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ALB}}
|align="center"|1995<ref name="geocities richard-clark-europe">{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/europe.html |title=The end of capital punishment in Europe |publisher=Capital Punishment U.K. |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080408233138/http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/europe.html |archivedate=8 April 2008}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2007
|Ratification of Protocol No. 13 of [[ECHR]] took place on 6 February 2007, in effect by 1 June 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/ratification-of-international-treaties |title=Death penalty: Ratification of international treaties |publisher=Amnesty International |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|AND}}
|align="center"|1943
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Abolished 1990 by [[Constitution of Andorra|Constitution]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ARM}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1998
|Abolished in 1998 by [[Constitution of Armenia|Constitution]]. The last execution when Armenia was a part of the USSR was on 30 August 1991.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|AUT}}
|align="center"|1950
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1968
|Abolished in peacetime 1950. Completely abolished in 1968 by Constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|AZE}}
|align="center"|1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1998
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#CC7862"|
|{{flagcountry|BLR}}
|align="center"|2014<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/index.php?iddocumento=18303675&mover=0 |title=BELARUS: CONVICTED MURDERER EXECUTED |publisher=Hands off cain |language=|date=18 April 2014 |accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref>
|align="center"|3+<ref name="theguardian.com"/><ref name="icomdp.org"/>
|align="center"|n/a
| Belarus is the last country in Europe to practice the death penalty. Laws allow capital punishment for acts of aggression; murder of a representative of a foreign state or international organization with the intention to provoke international tension or war; international terrorism; genocide; crimes against the security of humanity; murder with aggravating circumstances; terrorism; terrorist acts; treason that results in loss of life; conspiracy to seize power; sabotage; murder of a police officer; use of weapons of mass destruction; and violations of the laws and customs of war.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/42/topic/11 |title=Belarus: Death Penalty |publisher=Legislationline |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> See [[Capital punishment in Belarus]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BEL}}
|align="center"|1950
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1996
|Last execution for common law crimes was in 1863. Last execution for war crimes was in 1950. Abolished 1996 by [[Belgian Penal Code|Penal Code]]; since 2005 in [[Constitution of Belgium|Constitution]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BIH}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1992
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1998
|Last execution when part of Yugoslavia was in 1975. Abolished 1998 by [[Dayton agreement|Constitution]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|BGR}}
|align="center"|1989
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1998
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CYP}}
|align="center"|1962
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2002
|Capital punishment for murder abolished in 1983.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|HRV}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1991
|Last execution when part of Yugoslavia was in 1987.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.glas-slavonije.hr/vijest.asp?rub=8&ID_VIJESTI=108800 | title=Deveterostruko ubojstvo najteži zločin | date=27 May 2009 | work=[[Glas Slavonije]] | language=Croatian | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20111001195225/http://www.glas-slavonije.hr/vijest.asp?rub=8&ID_VIJESTI=108800 |archivedate=1 October 2011}}</ref> Abolished in 1990 for the Croatian Yugoslav Republic by the Constitution. Upon declaration of independence in 1991 Croatia removed itself from the jurisdiction of the Federal Yugoslav capital punishment statutes effectively achieving complete abolition.
Death penalty is prohibited by the article 21 of the Croatian Constitution.<ref name=croatian-constitution>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitution.org/cons/croatia.htm|title=The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia|publisher=Constitution Society |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CZE}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Last execution when part of Czechoslovakia was in June 1989.  Abolished after the Velvet Revolution 1990 by the amendment to [[Constitution of Czechoslovakia]]. Upon independence on 1 January 1993 the Czech Republic became a new abolitionist state. For more info see [[Capital punishment in the Czech Republic]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|DNK}}
|align="center"|1950
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1978
|Last execution for common law crimes 1892. Last execution for war crimes 1950. Capital punishment was retroactively carried out 1945–50 for crimes related to the German occupation in World War II, repealed in 1951 and confirmed in 1993. A similar rule was active 1952–1978 in the civil penalty law for war crimes committed under extreme circumstances. See ''[[Capital punishment in Denmark]]''.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|EST}}
|align="center"|1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1998
|In Estonia the last execution took place on 11 September 1991 when Rein Oruste was shot with a bullet to the back of the head for the crime of murder.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|FIN}}
|align="center"|1944
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1972
|Last peacetime execution 1825. Last wartime execution 1944. Capital punishment was abolished on civilian crimes 1949 (all existing sentences commuted to life imprisonment) and on all crimes 1972. 1984 death penalty was outlawed in the Finnish Constitution. See [[Capital punishment in Finland]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|FRA}}
|align="center"|1977
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1981
|The death penalty was initially abolished by the Directory in 1795 but re-introduced by Napoleon in 1810. It was re-abolished in law in 1981 and by [[Constitution of France|Constitution]] in 2007. See [[Capital punishment in France]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|GEO}}
|align="center"|1995<ref name="geocities richard-clark-europe"/>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2006
|The death penalty was abolished for most offenses in 1997, but the constitution stated that the Supreme Court had the power to impose the death penalty in exceptionally serious cases of "crimes against life". On 27 December 2006, President [[Mikheil Saakashvili]] signed into a law a new constitutional amendment totally abolishing the death penalty in all circumstances
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|DEU}}
|align="center"|1949 (West Germany)<br />1981 ([[East Germany]])
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1949 (West Germany)<br />1987 (East Germany)
|Prohibited in [[West Germany]] by the [[Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany|Basic Law]] since 1949. US military authorities carried out an execution on West German territory in 1956. The now defunct GDR abolished the death penalty in 1987, the last execution was held in 1981.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|GRC}}
|align="center"|1972
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2001
| Abolished in 1994 (Law 2207/1994) except for high treason in time of war; abolished completely with the [[Greek Constitutional amendment of 2001|Constitutional amendment of 2001]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|HUN}}
|align="center"|1988
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Capital punishment was abolished in 1990 and the last execution was of Vadász Ernő on 14 July 1988 for murder.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ISL}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1944<ref name="IcelandExecution">{{Cite web
|url          = http://www.listasafn.akureyri.is/v1/listak0103/bragadottur.html
|title        = Dauðarefsingar á Íslandi
|last1        = Bragadottir
|first1       = Ragnheidur
|publisher    = [[Akureyri Art Museum]]
|location     = [[Akureyri]], [[Iceland]]
|language     = Icelandic
|trans_title  = Death penalties in Iceland
|accessdate   = 5 April 2013
|quote        = Síðan liðu 40 ár þar til síðasta aftakan fór fram, en það var 12. janúar 1830 þegar Agnes Magnúsdóttir og Friðrik Sigurðsson voru tekin af lífi í Vatnsdalshólum í Húnavatnssýslu fyrir morðið á Natani Ketilssyni.
}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1928<ref name="IcelandAbolition">{{Cite web
|url          = http://www.listasafn.akureyri.is/v1/listak0103/bragadottur.html
|title        = Dauðarefsingar á Íslandi
|last1        = Bragadottir
|first1       = Ragnheidur
|publisher    = [[Akureyri Art Museum]]
|location     = [[Akureyri]], [[Iceland]]
|language     = Icelandic
|trans_title  = Death penalties in Iceland
|accessdate   = 5 April 2013
|quote        = Árið 1928 var til meðferðar á Alþingi frumvarp til breytinga á almennum hegningarlögum. Þingmaður Dalamanna, Sigurður Eggerz, setti þá fram tillögu um afnám líflátsrefsinga. Var hún samþykkt án teljandi umræðna og var dauðarefsing þar með afnumin á Íslandi.
}}</ref>
|Last execution in 1830 when a colony of Denmark.<ref name="IcelandExecution" /> Abolished in 1928;<ref name="IcelandAbolition" /> reintroduction made unconstitutional in 1995 by unanimous vote of [[Althing|Parliament]].<ref>{{Cite web
|url          = http://www.listasafn.akureyri.is/v1/listak0103/bragadottur.html
|title        = Dauðarefsingar á Íslandi
|last1        = Bragadottir
|first1       = Ragnheidur
|publisher    = [[Akureyri Art Museum]]
|location     = [[Akureyri]], [[Iceland]]
|language     = Icelandic
|trans_title  = Death penalties in Iceland
|accessdate   = 5 April 2013
|quote        = Mannréttindasáttmáli Evrópu var lögfestur á Íslandi árið 1995 og eru ákvæði hans þar með orðin hluti af íslenskum rétti. Ári síðar var mannréttindaákvæðum stjórnarskrárinnar mikið breytt og þau aukin. Var þá m.a. sett í stjórnarskrána bann við dauðarefsingu, en þar segir nú að aldrei megi mæla fyrir um slíka refsingu í lögum.
}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|IRL}}
|align="center"|1954
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|See [[Capital punishment in Ireland]]. Abolished for most murders in 1964, and for remaining offences in 1990. Last death sentences passed in 1985; all since 1954 commuted to imprisonment. [[Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland|2001 constitutional referendum]] prohibits reintroduction, even during [[state of emergency]].  
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ITA}}
|align="center"|1947
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1948
|On 30 November 1786 the Duchy of Tuscany (then independent, now a part of Italy) became the first state in the modern era to completely abolish the death penalty. The short lived Roman Republic of Feb–July 1849 abolished the death penalty before being overthrown by French troops. When the Kingdom of Italy was formed in 1861 all the constituent states except Tuscany allowed capital punishment until it was abolished from the penal code in 1889 – although it was maintained under military and colonial law. In 1926 Mussolini reintroduced the death penalty into Italian law. It was re-abolished from the penal code in 1944. Art. 27 of the [[Constitution of Italy|Constitution]] of the Italian Republic (1948) completely abolished it for all common military and civil crimes during peacetime. The death penalty was still, formally, in force in Italy in the military penal code, only for high treachery against the Republic or only in war theatre perpetrated crimes (though no execution ever took place) until it was abolished completely from there as well, in 1994. Article 27 of Italian Constitution was changed, in 2007, to impede the reintroduction of death penalty in time of war too. See [[Capital punishment in Italy]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|LVA}}
|align="center"|1996
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2012
|Death penalty abolished for peacetime offenses 1999. Abolished for all crimes 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wcd.coe.int/com.instranet.InstraServlet?command=com.instranet.CmdBlobGet&InstranetImage=2024032&SecMode=1&DocId=1852830&Usage=2 |title=Notification of Ratification |publisher=Council of Europe |date=3 February 2012 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|LIE}}
|align="center"|1785
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1987
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|LTU}}
|align="center"|1995
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1998
|
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|LUX}}
|align="center"|1949
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1979
|Abolished by Constitution 1979
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MKD}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1991
|Last execution when a part of Yugoslavia was in 1988.<ref name="geocities richard-clark-europe"/> Abolished by Constitution 1991.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MLT}}
|align="center"| *None since independence in 1964
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2000
|Last execution when a colony of Britain was in 1943. Capital punishment for murder abolished in 1971; part of the military code until 2000.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MDA}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2005
|Last execution when a part of the USSR was in 1985.<ref name="geocities richard-clark-europe"/> On 23 September 2005 the [[Moldovan Constitutional Court]] approved constitutional amendments that abolished the death penalty.<ref>[http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=2446740&PageNum=0] {{dead link|date=February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MCO}}
|align="center"|1847
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1962
|Abolished by Constitution 1962
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|MNE}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 2006
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1995
|Last execution when a part of Yugoslavia was in 1992. Capital punishment abolished by Yugoslavia Federal Republic in 1995. When Montenegro declared independence in 2006 it became an abolitionist state.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|NLD}}
|align="center"|1952
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2010 (Neth Antilles) <br> 1982 (Neth)
|Last execution for peacetime offences 1860. Abolished for peacetime offences in 1870. Abolished in Netherlands by [[Constitution of the Netherlands|Constitution]] 1982. Last Netherlands overseas territory to abolish was Netherlands Antilles in 2010.<ref name="thedailyherald.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailyherald.com/islands/1-news/1348-antilles-to-abolish-capital-punishment-.html |title=Antilles to abolish capital punishment |work=The Daily Herald |date=11 March 2010 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|NOR}}
|align="center"|1948
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1979
|Abolished for peacetime offences in 1902, last execution for peacetime offences 1876. Last executions of wartime offenders conducted on 37 men convicted of treason or war crimes in WWII in 1945–48.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|POL}}
|align="center"|1988
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1997
|A criminal law reform including reintroduction of death penalty was proposed in 2004 by [[Law and Justice|Prawo i Sprawiedliwość]], but lost its first reading vote in the [[Sejm]] by 198 to 194 with 14 abstentions. It is said that this was only populism, as Poland was in the [[European Union]] and so this initiative hardly had a chance.<ref name="amnesty.org ENGACT500012005"/>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|PRT}}
|align="center"|1846
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1867
|Capital Punishment was abolished for political crimes in 1852, civil crimes in 1867 and war crimes in 1911.<ref>{{cite web|title=Portuguese Constitution of 1933 - Part I, Title II, Article 8º, Nº11: [Translation]: ''There is no perpetual body feathers, '''nor death, except, on this,''' the case of belligerency with a foreign country, and to be applied in the war theater''|url=http://debates.parlamento.pt/Constituicoes_PDF/CRP-1933.pdf|accessdate=7 April 2014|language=Portuguese|format=pdf|date=11 April 1933}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Article 3 of Law 635 - Amendment to the Portuguese Constitution of 1911 - The exception on the article of the death penalty: [Translation] ''The Death Penalty (...) '''cannot be reestablished in any case (...) # with the exception''', about the Death Penalty, only in case of war with a foreign country (...) and only in the theater of war.'' |url=http://www.dre.pt/pdf1s%5C1916%5C09%5C19700%5C09090909.pdf|work=Diário do Governo|publisher=Diário do Governo da República Portuguesa|accessdate=28 March 2014|language=Portuguese|format=pdf|date=28 September 1916}}</ref>  Capital punishment was completely abolished again in 1976.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.www.mcu.es/patrimonio/MC/PatrimonioEur/Red/Portugal_Abolicion_penademuerte.html |title=Abolition of the death penalty |publisher=European Heritage Label |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> See [[Capital punishment in Portugal]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ROU}}
|align="center"|1989
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cdep.ro/pls/legis/legis_pck.htp_act_text?idt=11033 |title=Decree-Law No. 6 |publisher=National Salvation Front Council |date=7 January 1990 |language=Romanian |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|The last people to be convicted and executed in Romania were the former dictator [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] and his wife, [[Elena Ceaușescu]], following the [[Romanian Revolution of 1989]]. Their accusations ranged from crimes against humanity to high-treason. Abolished in 1990 and banned by [[Romanian Constitution|Constitution]] in 1991.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#E8AA30"|
|{{flagcountry|RUS}}
|align="center"|1996<br />1999 ([[Chechnya]])
|
|align="center"|n/a
| Russia retains the death penalty, but the regulations of the Council of Europe prohibit it from carrying out any executions. There have been 4 brief periods when Russia has completely abolished the death penalty, in the 18th century Russian empress [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] abolished it, but it was restored by the Next emperor, [[Peter III of Russia]]; then, on 12 March 1917 to 12 July 1917 following the [[February Revolution|overthrow of the Tsar]], 27 October 1917 to 16 June 1918 following the seizure of power by the [[Bolsheviks]], and 1947–1950 after the end of the [[Second World War]] ([[Joseph Stalin]] abolished it in 1947, but he had restored it back in 1950, and for this short period, the strictest punishment in [[USSR]] was [[penal servitude]] in [[GULAG]] for 25 years). Currently the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation envisages the death penalty for five crimes: murder with aggravating circumstances, assassination attempt against a state or public figure, attempt on the life of a person administering justice or preliminary investigations, attempt on the life of a law-enforcement officer, and genocide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/7/topic/11 |title=Russian Federation: Death Penalty |publisher=Legislationline |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref> On 16 April 1997 Russia signed the Sixth Protocol to the [[European Convention on Human Rights]], but has yet to ratify it. There has been a moratorium on executions since 1996; no executions in the Russian Federation since August 1996 (except one in 1999 in the [[Chechen Republic]], a former limited recognition state). In November 2009, the [[Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation|Constitutional Court]] extended the moratorium indefinitely pending ratification of the Sixth Protocol. This has effectively severed death penalty provisions in the Criminal Code. See [[Capital punishment in Russia]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SMR}}
|align="center"|1468
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1865
|Capital Punishment was abolished for civil crimes in 1848. The Death penalty was completely abolished for all crimes in 1865.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SRB}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 2006
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1995
|Last execution when a part of Yugoslavia was in 1992. Capital punishment abolished by Yugoslavia Federal Republic in 1995. When Serbia became independent in 2006 it became an abolitionist state.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SVK}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1993
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1990
|Last execution when a part of Czechoslovakia was in 1989. Abolished 1990 by Constitution when still a constituent part of Czechoslovakia. Upon independence on 1 January 1993 Slovakia became a new abolitionist state.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SVN}}
|align="center"|*None since independence in 1991
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1991
|Last execution when a part of Yugoslavia was in 1959. Abolished in Slovenian Yugoslav Republic 1989 by [[Constitution of Slovenia|Constitution]]. Upon declaration of independence in 1991 Slovenia removed itself from the jurisdiction of the Federal Yugoslav capital punishment statutes effectively achieving complete abolition.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|ESP}}
|align="center"|1975
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1995
|Abolished in 1978 by constitution except for military laws during wartime. Abolished from the military penal code in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boe.es/aeboe/consultas/bases_datos/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1995-25714 |title=Ley Orgánica 11/1995, de 27 de noviembre, de abolición de la pena de muerte en tiempo de guerra |publisher=Government of Spain |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|SWE}}
|align="center"|1910
|
|align="center"|1973
|Peacetime offences 1921, Wartime offences 1973. Constitutionally prohibited since 1975. See also [[capital punishment in Sweden]].
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|CHE}}
|align="center"|1944
|
|align="center"|1992
|Capital Punishment was abolished in 1874, but reinstated in 1879. It was practiced by a few [[Cantons of Switzerland|cantons]] (nine executions up to 1940). Abolished by popular vote in 1938, except for wartime military crimes, for which it was abolished in 1992. Banned by the 1999 constitution.
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|TUR}}
|align="center"|1984
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2004
|Abolished in 2004 by [[Constitution of Turkey|Constitution]]
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|UKR}}
|align="center"|1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/eur50.htm |title=Annual Report 1999 – Ukraine |publisher=Amnesty International |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/19991109075223/http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/eur50.htm |archivedate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2000<ref name=bookdpUkr>[http://books.google.com/books?id=kwAjvp2LnjMC&pg=PA197&dq=death+penalty+Ukraine&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=7TIeUrv0IO6I7AbM04CYBA&ved=0CG8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=death%20penalty%20Ukraine&f=false International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law: Anchoring Democracy?], [[Routledge]], 2008, ISBN 0415492955 (page 196 a.f.)</ref><ref name=bookdpUkr2>[http://books.google.com/books?id=zKsfGi3y3YgC&pg=PA74&dq=death+penalty+Ukraine&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=lTgeUvOSIZOThQfUqICgBQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=death%20penalty%20Ukraine&f=false The Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition], [[Council of Europe]], 2004, ISBN 9287153337 (page 74)</ref>
|Abolished February 2000 after the [[Constitutional Court of Ukraine|Constitutional Court]] ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in December 1999.<ref name=bookdpUkr/><ref name=bookdpUkr2/> New criminal code passed in April 2000.<ref name=bookdpUkr/><ref name=bookdpUkr2/><ref name="OnoprienkoIU28813">[http://www.interfax.co.uk/ukraine-news/serial-killer-onopriyenko-dies-in-zhytomyr-prison/ Serial killer Onopriyenko dies in Zhytomyr prison], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (28 August 2013)</ref>
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|UK}}
|align="center"|1977 (Bermuda) <br>1964 (UK)
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2006 (Jersey) <br> 1998 (UK)
|Last execution in the UK was in 1964. The last execution on British Overseas Territory occurred in Bermuda in 1977. Abolished for murder in 1969 in Great Britain and 1973 in [[Northern Ireland]]. Abolished for all remaining offences (high treason, piracy with violence and offences under military jurisdiction) in UK in 1998. European Convention, Thirteenth Protocol ratified in 2003 confirming total abolition. See [[Capital punishment in the United Kingdom]]. The last British Territory or Crown Dependency to completely abolish capital punishment was Jersey on 10 December 2006 (see [[Capital punishment in Jersey]]).
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|bgcolor="#3F9BBB"|
|{{flagcountry|VAT}}
|align="center"|1870 (as [[Papal States]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Allen |first=John R. |url=http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/091401/091401a.htm |title=He executed justice |work=National Catholic Reporter |date=14 September 2001 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20011101030942/http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/091401/091401a.htm |archivedate=1 November 2001}}</ref>
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1969
|Never used within the Vatican and only carried out in the [[Papal States]] by local authorities where the sentences were handed out.
|}

==Abolition chronology==
The table below lists in chronological order the 103 independent states, that are either UN members or have UN observer status, that have completely abolished the death penalty. In the hundred years following the abolition of capital punishment by Venezuela in 1863 only 10 more countries were able to maintain abolition – although more tried but failed to prevent re-instatement after an initial abolition. From the 1960s there has been a growing momentum towards abolition worldwide. In the 1960s 4 countries abolished (a record up to that time for any decade), in the 1970s a limited momentum was achieved when 10 countries abolished, the 1980s saw a further 9 countries abolish, but it was the fall of Communism in 1989 which turned the trickle into a torrent – no fewer than 34 countries abolished in the 1990s, the individual years 1990 and 1998 are especially notable because 8 and 7 countries respectively abolished in those single years. This momentum is continuing as a further 26 countries abolished in the first decade of this century. Since 1985, there have been only four years when no country has abolished the death penalty: 1988, 2003, 2011 and 2013.

'''Note''': Where a country has abolished, re-instated, and abolished again (e.g. Philippines, Switzerland, Portugal) only the later abolition date is included. Countries who have abolished and since reinstated (e.g. Liberia) are not included. Non-independent territories are considered to be under the jurisdiction of their parent country – which leads to unexpectedly late abolition dates for the UK, New Zealand and the Netherlands, where Jersey (UK), the Cook Is (NZ), and the Netherlands Antilles, were the last territories of those states to abolish capital punishment, and all were rather later than the more well known abolitions on the respective mainlands. Defunct countries such as the GDR (East Germany), which abolished capital punishment in 1987 but was dissolved in 1990, are also not included. References are in the continental tables above and not repeated here.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style="width:5em;"  | Year abolished
! style="width:44em;" | Country
! style="width:5em;"  | Countries per year
! style="width:5em;"  | Running total
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1863
|{{flagcountry|VEN}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1865
|{{flagcountry|SMR}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1877
|{{flagcountry|CRI}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|3
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1903
|{{flagcountry|PAN}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|4
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1906
|{{flagcountry|ECU}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|5
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1907
|{{flagcountry|URY}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|6
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1910
|{{flagcountry|COL}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|7
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1928
|{{flagcountry|ISL}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|8
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1949
|{{flagcountry|DEU}} (FR)
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|9
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1956
|{{flagcountry|HND}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|10
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1962
|{{flagcountry|MCO}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|11
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1966
|{{flagcountry|DOM}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|12
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1968
|{{flagcountry|AUT}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|13
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1969
|{{flagcountry|VAT}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|14
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1972
|{{flagcountry|FIN}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|15
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1973
|{{flagcountry|SWE}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|16
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1976
|{{flagcountry|CAN}} {{flagcountry|PRT}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|18
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1978
|{{flagcountry|DNK}} {{flagcountry|SLB}} {{flagcountry|TUV}}
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|21
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1979
|{{flagcountry|KIR}} {{flagcountry|LUX}} {{flagcountry|NIC}} {{flagcountry|NOR}}
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|25
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1980
|{{flagcountry|VUT}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|26
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1981
|{{flagcountry|CPV}} {{flagcountry|FRA}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|28
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1982
|{{flagcountry|NLD}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|29
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1985
|{{flagcountry|AUS}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|30
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1986
|{{flagcountry|MHL}} {{flagcountry|FSM}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|32
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1987
|{{flagcountry|HTI}} {{flagcountry|LIE}} {{flagcountry|DEU}} (DR)
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|34
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1989
|{{flagcountry|KHM}} {{flagcountry|NZL}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/a-history-capital-punishment-in-nz-2423716 |title=A history of capital punishment in NZ |publisher=TVNZ |date=17 December 2008 |accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|36
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1990
|{{flagcountry|AND}} {{flagcountry|CZE}}+{{flagcountry|SVK}} (as Czechoslovakia) {{flagcountry|HUN}} {{flagcountry|IRL}}<br> {{flagcountry|MOZ}} {{flagcountry|NAM}} {{flagcountry|ROU}} {{flagcountry|STP}}
|align="center"|9
|align="center"|45
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1991
|{{flagcountry|HRV}} {{flagcountry|MKD}} {{flagcountry|SVN}}
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|48
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1992
|{{flagcountry|AGO}} {{flagcountry|PRY}} {{flagcountry|CHE}}
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|51
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1993
|{{flagcountry|GNB}} {{flagcountry|SYC}}
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|54
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1994
|{{flagcountry|ITA}} {{flagcountry|PLW}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|56
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1995
|{{flagcountry|DJI}} {{flagcountry|MUS}} {{flagcountry|ZAF}} {{flagcountry|ESP}} {{flagcountry|SRB}}+{{flagcountry|MNE}} (as Yugoslavia)
|align="center"|6
|align="center"|62
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1996
|{{flagcountry|BEL}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|62
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1997
|{{flagcountry|NPL}} {{flagcountry|POL}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|64
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1998
|{{flagcountry|ARM}} {{flagcountry|AZE}} {{flagcountry|BIH}} {{flagcountry|BGR}} {{flagcountry|EST}} {{flagcountry|LTU}}<br>{{flagcountry|UK}}
|align="center"|7
|align="center"|71
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|1999
|{{flagcountry|TKM}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|72
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2000
|{{flagcountry|CIV}} {{flagcountry|MLT}} {{flagcountry|UKR}}
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|75
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2001
|{{flagcountry|GRC}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|76
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2002
|{{flagcountry|CYP}} {{flagcountry|TLS}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|78
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2004
|{{flagcountry|BTN}} {{flagcountry|WSM}} {{flagcountry|SEN}} {{flagcountry|TUR}}
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|82
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2005
|{{flagcountry|MEX}} {{flagcountry|MDA}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|84
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2006
|{{flagcountry|GEO}} {{flagcountry|PHL}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|86
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2007
|{{flagcountry|ALB}} {{flagcountry|KGZ}} {{flagcountry|RWA}}
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|89
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2008
|{{flagcountry|UZB}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|90
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2009
|{{flagcountry|ARG}} {{flagcountry|BDI}} {{flagcountry|TGO}} {{flagcountry|BOL}}
|align="center"|5
|align="center"|95
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2010
|{{flagcountry|GAB}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|96
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2012
|{{flagcountry|LVA}} {{flagcountry|BEN}} {{flagcountry|MNG}} {{flagcountry|MDG}}
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|100
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2014
|{{flagcountry|TCD}}
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|101
|-bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|align="center"|2015
|{{flagcountry|FJI}} {{flagcountry|SUR}}
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|103
|}

==Executed per capita==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right;"
! Country !! Total executed<br>(2007-2012)<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/death-penalty-countries-world</ref> !! Total population<br>(2007-2012)<ref>http://esa.un.org/wpp/Excel-Data/population.htm</ref> !! Executed per<br>100 million
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Iran}} ||  {{nts|1,663}} || {{nts| 444,324,102 }} || {{nts| 374.276}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} || {{nts| 1 }} || {{nts| 312,226 }} || {{nts| 320.281}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Saudi Arabia}} || {{nts| 423 }} || {{nts| 162,386,327 }} || {{nts| 260.490}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}} || {{nts| 7 }} || {{nts| 4,122,953 }} || {{nts| 169.781}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|China}} || ≥{{nts| 2,000 }} || {{nts| 1,357,380,000 }} || ≥{{nts| 147.343}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Iraq}} || {{nts| 256 }} || {{nts| 183,911,083 }} || {{nts| 139.198}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Yemen}} || {{nts| 152 }} || {{nts| 135,034,981 }} || {{nts| 112.563}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Libya}} || {{nts| 39 }} || {{nts| 35,921,706 }} || {{nts| 108.569}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Korea, North}} || {{nts| 105 }} || {{nts| 146,622,747 }} || {{nts| 71.612}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Somalia}} || {{nts| 23 }} || {{nts| 57,171,174 }} || {{nts| 40.230}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Botswana}} || {{nts| 4 }} || {{nts| 11,760,573 }} || {{nts| 34.012}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Palestine}} || {{nts| 8 }} || {{nts| 23,802,512 }} || {{nts| 33.610}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Bahrain}} || {{nts| 2 }} || {{nts| 7,202,034 }} || {{nts| 27.770}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Syria}} || {{nts| 33 }} || {{nts| 126,165,771 }} || {{nts| 26.156}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Oman}} || {{nts| 4 }} || {{nts| 16,968,029 }} || {{nts| 23.574}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Afghanistan}} || {{nts| 34 }} || {{nts| 168,417,455 }} || {{nts| 20.188}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Pakistan}} || {{nts| 171 }} || {{nts| 1,029,506,181 }} || {{nts| 16.610}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Belarus}} || {{nts| 9 }} || {{nts| 57,013,512 }} || {{nts| 15.786}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Sudan}} || {{nts| 30 }} || {{nts| 211,389,767 }} || {{nts| 14.192}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Singapore}} || {{nts| 4 }} || {{nts| 30,119,469 }} || {{nts| 13.280}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|United States}} || {{nts| 220 }} || {{nts| 1,864,599,932 }} || {{nts| 11.799}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Vietnam}} || {{nts| 58 }} || {{nts| 531,879,523 }} || {{nts| 10.905}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|South Sudan}} || {{nts| 5 }} || {{nts| 58,535,259 }} || {{nts| 8.542}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Taiwan}} || {{nts| 15 }} || {{nts| 138,651,496 }} || {{nts| 10.81849}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Mongolia}} || {{nts| 1 }} || {{nts| 16,163,556 }} || {{nts| 6.187}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Kuwait}} || {{nts| 1 }} || {{nts| 17,474,024 }} || {{nts| 5.723}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Japan}} || {{nts| 33 }} || {{nts| 763,842,904 }} || {{nts| 4.320}}
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| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|United Arab Emirates}} || {{nts| 2 }} || {{nts| 46,886,585 }} || {{nts| 4.266}}
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| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Bangladesh}} || {{nts| 28 }} || {{nts| 902,613,408 }} || {{nts| 3.102}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Egypt}} || {{nts| 12 }} || {{nts| 464,686,567 }} || {{nts| 2.582}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Malaysia}} || {{nts| 2 }} || {{nts| 168,181,221 }} || {{nts| 1.189}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Indonesia}} || {{nts| 11 }} || {{nts| 1,434,045,506 }} || {{nts| 0.767}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Thailand}} || {{nts| 2 }} || {{nts| 398,303,251 }} || {{nts| 0.502}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{flag|Ethiopia}} || {{nts| 1 }} || {{nts| 516,117,123 }} || {{nts| 0.194}}
|}

==See also==
*[[Capital punishment]] ([[Capital punishment for drug trafficking|For drug trafficking]])
*[[List of most recent executions by jurisdiction]]
*[[American Convention on Human Rights]]
*[[European Convention on Human Rights]]
*[[Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty Amnesty International]
*[http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html The Death Penalty Worldwide]
*[http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15025&Cr=death&Cr1=penalty Countries retaining death penalty fail to give details of executions] – United Nations, 14 July 2005
*[https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-12&chapter=4&lang=en Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]
*[http://www.conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ChercheSig.asp?NT=187&CM=1&DF=&CL=ENG European Convention on Human Rights - Protocol 13]
*[http://www.cidh.org/Basicos/English/Basic3.American%20Convention.htm American Convention on Human Rights - Protocol to Abolish the Death Penalty]
*[http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/death_penalty/asiapac.php Death Penalty in Asia-Pacific]
*[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/world.html Monthly updates of world-wide executions]
*[http://www.handsoffcain.info/bancadati/index.php?tipotema=arg&idtema=10000532 Hands Off Cain] (results may vary)
*[http://www.abolitionuk.org Abolition UK]
*[http://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org Death Penalty Worldwide] Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world.

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