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Revision as of 22:18, 15 May 2021

Capital punishment has occurred over much of Anteria in the past. However, in the past century, many countries in the region have abolished the practice. The following summarises the countries and conditions in which capital punishment is legal in Anteria.

  Capital punishment has been formally abolished by statute or constitution
  Capital punishment is only permitted for exceptional scenarios (such as crimes committed in wartime)
  Capital punishment is legal and is used for ordinary offences

Key Country Year implemented Year of last execution Year abolished Method(s) Notes
 Agarntrop Antiquity (codified in 1732) 1970 2006 (moratorium imposed in 1971) Firing Squad (1895-2006)
Beheading (1732-1895)
The death penalty was historically used in Agarntrop and was codified into law in 1732, during the Neuew colonial era. Originally, there were several crimes that could be punished with death by beheading, however these were reduced to murder, rape, military offences, and treason by 1886. Beheading was abolished in 1895 and replaced with the firing squad. The death penalty overall was abolished in 2006 by a constitutional amendment passed by the national legislature with the necessary 2/3rds majority required, and was signed into law by the President. However, the death penalty had not been used since the year 1970 due to an indefinite moratorium on the practice passed by the legislature in 1971. After the 1971 moratorium of the death penalty, the maximum sentence was 50 years' imprisonment, however this was increased to a new sentence of life imprisonment in 1990.
 Albithica 1860 1919 1920 Albithica's current Constitution, as well as all former Constitutions, have always expressly prohibited the death penalty, with the notable exception of the Imperial Republic's reversal of this stance.
 Amrelia Antiquity 1994 2003 Lethal injection, hanging, firing squad Capital punishment varied by state prior to federal law (which allowed for the death penalty in cases of treason, terrorism, and espionage) banning it in 2003. By 1998, only the states of East Elizabeth and Hirane retained the death penalty, however a moratorium had been in place for several years in both states.
 Aziallis Adopted from the Skaje legal code into the Azillain Penal Code in 1762. 1974 1964 None The Azillian Penal Code which was also accepted with amendments after the formation of the Union was drawn majorly from the Skaje Legal Code. The Death Penalty was allowed for a variety of serious offenses and could only be delivered by a Judge of a Court. The Azillian Penal Code gives the Courts the right to decide whether crimes committed by a certain individual deserve death penalty.

Till before 1940, the ruling Monarch (of both the Union and the States) had the Priviledge to give a "Pardon from Death" to an individual on death row asking for mercy. In 1940, the Parliament lead by then Prime Minister V. Mozhtovich scrapd sections of laws granting the Monarch the said power. In 1955, then Prime Minister B. Svave brought back a similar law but instead empowered the Prime Minister with Mercy Pardons (only applicable for reducing death penalty to life in prison). Svave, a strong proponent of ending capital punishment, used his power often. EVen though he was unsuccessful in legally removing the death penalty, he succeeded in minimizing the use of it.

By 1970, 9 States had abolished the death penalty on State levels, and all Autonomous Regions, States and Cities had removed capital punishment as well. Freyerka and Ajenta had leaders that fiercely defended the death penalty and State Parliaments failed to abolish it, even though even their State Judiciaries hadn't used it in 5 years.

In 1973, newly elected Prime Minister C. Sukerni introduced a bill to abolish the death penalty nation-wide. By then, only two States remained which still had the practice in place, with even the Associated Republics having passed legislature to end the practice. In 1974, the Union Government sued the State Governments of Freyerka and Ajenta, claiming that the Act passed by the Union Parliament has legal power to abolish capital punishment even in the States. The Supreme Court agreed with the Union's stance and in 1974 Aziallis was free from capital punishment.

 Bakyern Since Foundation 2019 N/A Firing Squad, Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, Gas Chamber TBA
 Bendan Antiquity 1989 1990 Capital punishment has been abolished after the Great Revolution, as it was seen as a remnant of the totalitarian regime.
 Encessia Antiquity (formalized 1994) 2021 N/A Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, Hanging In 1994 the new constitution of the Auteker contained a clause allowing for capital punishment in response to crimes "of the highest calibre". These crimes include political corruption, treason, repeated rape/molestation, mass murder, and inciting revolution.
 Gabrielland Antiquity 1913 1927 Shortly after independence from Astariax, the death penalty was abolished. For really serious offences, a life sentence may be given out.
 Gassasinia Antiquity 1909 Moratorium since 1915
Abolished in 1979
N/A Previously carried out executions for rape, murder and treason via hanging. Executions and death sentences haven't been carried out in Gassasinia for over a century after a moratorium was passed in 1915 by the parliament of Shadoveilian Gassasinia. References to the death penalty on the books continued to shrink until it was further declared completely illegal by the passage of Gassasinia's constitution in 1979.
File:Halsunt Flag.png Halsuntria Since Foundation 2018 N/A Traditional ways included drowning but lethal injection is the most common practice now All people that get executed are processed one of two ways, the immediate sentence or the two-strike system. The Immediate Sentence almost never gets used (however it was the most recent one used in 2018) and involves somebody doing crime so horrible that they immediately get sent to death row and within a week they will have been executed. The Two-Strike system is when a criminal does a serious crime (murder, arson, rape) and if they do another serious crime, they will be sent to death row immediately after their hearing.
 Hatstheput Since Foundation 2017 N/A Electric chair or lethal injection, at the criminal's discretion. Capital Punishment is legalized and used for ordinary offences in Hatstheput, but only applied for serious offences. These include premeditated murder, participation in a terrorist attack, mass murder, genocide, war crimes, high treason, mass raping and pedophilia. Capital punishment has been enforced in the modern state of Hatstheput since its foundation after the Hatstheputian Civil War. Its application was vetoed several times during Hatstheputian history by progressive members of the Liberal Party. Since its instauration, 322 criminals have been executed.|-
 Iwonia Since Foundation 2020 N/A (Central Government),
1992 (Schizenn),
1967 (Central Ansia)
Firing Squad, Lethal Injection, Burning at the stake, Lynching Before 2017, the guillotine was the main execution method. Around 19% of prisoners are executed and frequently with the Province of Lievenira with more than 67% of executions in Iwonia. The Autonomous Regions of Schizenn and Central Ansia have outlawed the practice.
 Kentalis 1603 1891 1891 Used to be carried out by hanging. Capital punishment has been banned since 1891.
 Kilowatt Antiquity 2009 2012 Capital punishment in Kilowatt was abolished following a referendum in 2012
 Kistolia 1701 2021 2021 Hung and quartered, Shot in the lung, pushed off the 20 story execution building, drowning, or beheading via guillotine. Capital punishment was only used for Murder, Terrorism, torture, reapeated offences, War Crimes, and Treason. It was formally abolished on January 29th, 2021.
Template:Country data Layfet 1724 N/A N/A None Capital Punishment is specifically barred by the Layfetian Constitution.
Screenshot 2021-03-04 085120.png Lyonheimer 1100~1973 1965 1973 Firing Squad (1895-1940)
Electrocution (1940-1965)
The death penalty in Lyonheimer was abolished in 1973 following protests that it breached human rights of prisoners.
 Maricoen Since Foundation 1954 1984 None For centuries capital punishment was permitted to be used throughout Maricoen, but in 1984 under liberal Prime Minister Andrik Golovkin the death penalty was abolished after a slew of human rights protests that followed a time of civil unrest in Maricoen.
 Neuewland Antiquity 2018 N/A Execution by shooting Capital Punishment is legalized and is used for a multitude of offences in Neuewland. It can be used for mass murder (which in Neuew law is the killing of 10 or more people), serial rape, pedophilia, treason, attempted coup, and war crimes. Single-shot execution is used for normal criminals, while firing squad is used for military executions.
 New Sebronia Not known 1908 1912 Implementation propably happened during the time of the Sebric Empire. Since the first unification talks, it was never used again. Officially abolished after the declaration of the Federal Republic.
 Nexalan Antiquity 1523 1523 Unknown. After The Great Fight for Peace, Nexalan was declared to be peaceful and no discrimination, Nexalan's only Capital Punishment was 1523, to punish the king for being unfair after winning the fight, after that everyone signed a contract to make it illegal for any Captial Punishment since then.
 Paslin Never Never Since colonization N/A Capital punishment never has or will be used for crimes. Sentences in prison and rehabilitation are used instead.
 Paxaklemtorno First attested for civil judiciary in 1349 BC
(codified in 278 BC)
2006 N/A In the years of the Younger Kingdoms, execution was carried out in many different ways, including untreated major wounds (severance of limbs, waist cutting, blinding, gouging, stabbing, etc), prolonged death (asphyxiation by hanging, by choking, by breathing in fumes from smoldering coals and by drowning) and immediate death (beheading, boulder crushing, cooking and boiling alive in preheated spaces, etc). The set of methods has changed with time, as more extreme methods were suspended by a moratorium in 1903, then fully abolished in 1944, leaving only hanging and beheading, with the latter suspended by a 1999 ruling. Capital punishment in the Kingdoms of Paxaklemtorno is reserved for highest offences, as only the Royal Court can designate capital punishment upon an individual, with the verification of the acting monarch. Capital punishment is used only in severe cases, where it is deemed equal to the offence committed, such as conscious mass murder, murder, psychological torture, physical torture and rape. In all other cases, the Kingdoms' courts usually opt to impose a life sentence, with such an attitude adopted by the Royal Court as well, following the campaigning of civil rights' activists in the 2000s.
 Prybourne 1890 2015 n/a Should capital punishment become necessary (such as for going on strike), the preferred method is defenestration from the top of the Tower of Commerce. Not only is the forty-story descent effective, but it allows those in the Sacred Marketplace below opportunities to place wagers on where the condemned will land. Capital punishment is sanctioned in Prybourne for certain federal and military crimes, and used in 7 states. While there are 7 states which include capital punishment within their sentencing statutes, some states (such as Newley and Wildespell) have yet to execute anyone since 1976, as demonstrated by the lack of any executions by these states out of the 1317 total executions which have taken place as of December 5, 2015. No executions took place from 1967 to 1977, owing in part to a Prybourne Supreme Court ruling striking down arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. In 1976, that Court ruled that, under appropriate circumstances, capital punishment may constitutionally be imposed; since the decision there have been more than 1,300 executions, a majority of these taking place in three states: Woodland , Bydale, and Bysummer. Five state legislatures in the modern era have abolished the death penalty, though two of those laws (in Morwall and Limwick) were not retroactive. Additionally, state courts in Vertcoast and Springlea struck down death penalty statutes and their legislatures took no action in response.
 Qazhshava 1490~ 2020 n/a Tjan'dze Drowning methood, Decapitaion for certain crimes. Lethal Injection is common in some areas. The Justice in Qazhshava often follows traditional Tjan'dze ways, due to which it may be seen as cruel by other nations.
 Sacrofnia antiquity 2018 N/A Execution by shooting, hanging or by chemists The Sacrofnian justice considers that when a person commits a crime that deserves to be condemned to death, it loses its value as a human being and may end up with a future far worse than death, such as being a test subject of the many laboratories of Sacrofnia.
 Tiskaiya Since Foundation 2019 N/A Electric Chair*, Firing Squad, Lethal Injection
  • Electric chair being fazed out
A Tiskai jury may sentence for the following crimes:

Battery on Government Official, Crimes Against Humanity, First Degree Murder, Second Degree Murder, Terrorism, Treason, War Crimes.

 Toubaze 1873 2014 NA Lethal Injection (Electric Chair and Firing Squad outlawed in 1994 and 1951 respectively) Toubaze uses the death penalty in cases of Treason, Terrorism and severe cases of Murder
 Tsinkin Antiquity n/a n/a Lethal Injection or Less commonly Traditional Firing Squad (Electrocution & Lethal Gas no longer in use since 1981) Tsinkin only uses the death penalty in cases of mass murder, or deliberate and premeditated cases of murder that include victim/s being tortured. Death by Firing Sqaud is tied to the cultural beleifs of some Tsinkinians.
 Velnotia 1040 n/a n/a Velnotia uses the death penalty to punish criminals of the most serious offenses (i.e., Murder, Treason.).
Viha 859365.png Viha 2016 2017 N/A Viha executes all the people who are involved in all illegal actions.
 Whitmarche Since Foundation 2019 N/A Lethal injection, electrouction TBA
 Wolfgalia 1833 1928 1929 Wolfgalia does not implement the death penalty as it was determined as fundamentally opposing Galea culture and beliefs by the Wolfgalian government in the year 1928, but the nation does send criminals with the most extreme offenses (i.e. Homicide, Acts of Terrorism, Rape) to other nations with which the government has come to agreements (Neuewland, Hyrtexia) for interned and unpaid work for life.
 Yryel Antiquity 2021 N/A Lethal Injection, Electric Chair Captial Punishment is only used in Yryel for the worst crimes e.g. mass murder, rape (repeated), terrorism, etc.