Capital punishment in Sharifistan

Capital punishment in Sharifistan is legal available for a range of crimes and has existed since the before the establishment of Sharifistan in 1922. The methods of execution are long-drop hanging (for ordinary civilians) and firing squad (for military personnel of any country and for foreign heads of state with at least three years military experience).

History

In Ottoman Sipahistan, capital punishment was available for homicide, arson, stealing a horse or a slave and repeated thefts as well as offenses against public safety, serious violations of market regulations, counterfeiting, acts of disobedience against the Sultan and the spreading of calumnies about him, the illegal sale of grain and export of arms to foreign [Christian] countries as well as adultery, heresy and apostasy. Rape (Ightisab), which has been the crime of most capital convicts from 1946-2019, only became a capital crime in 1923. Capital punishment for apostasy was ended in 1929 and for adultery in 1958 though capital punishment had not been carried out for apostasy since the establishment of Sharifistan and capital punishment for adultery was only carried out six times since it's establishment, all of them during the Second World War. A range of drug offences became capital offences in from 2020 to 2021 including trafficking of cocaine or heroin, use of cocaine and driving whilst under the influence of drugs. In May 2021, the death penalty was made an option for the offence of procuring a child for prostitution. That year, long-drop hanging became the sole method of execution though in the 3rd of June firing squad also became an option. In the 18th of June, beating to death became an option in the execution of drug-dealers.

Current law

Capital punishment is an option for murder , hirabah, waging unjust wars, smuggling of cocaine or heroin, supplying drugs, driving under the influence of drugs, accepting a bribe connected to a capital offence, rape (Ightisab), molestation of a child under thirteen, pederasty with a boy under fourteen, production of child pornography, procuring a child for prostitution, treason, desertion (military offence), fake charity scams, fake medical advice, dating or romance scams, acting as a dayooth, polyandry (including polyandrous cohabitation), treason, perfidy, bestiality, perjury, terrorism, arson of a dwelling with intent to endanger life and desecration of a place of worship as well as violation of safeguard (military offence), sabotaging the war effort, bribery, selling military secrets for profit, stolen valour and failure to suppress a mutiny with intent to assist the enemy (military offence), the use of child soldiers by communists, crimes against humanity and genocide. To be sentenced to death convicts must be "sane men over the age of sixteen". Executions use either firing squad or hanging except in the case of drug-dealing where execution is carried out by beating.

Judicial process

Judicial process involves the sentence being handed down by a High Court, with a chance to appeal to the Supreme Court or commutation by the Sultan.

Salaries of executioners

In June 2021, executioners' pay was raised so that the average executioner earns £155,000 a year (the same as a representative of the nobility in The Majilis ash-Shura), a guild master in the Administrators of Justice Guild ears £255,000 a year and the Chief Executioners of some cities earn £1,000,000 a year.