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. Methods of execution the government may use include long-drop hanging, guillotine, blowing from a gun, lethal injection, shooting (either firing squad or single person shooting by the Sultan), gladiatorial combat and impalement.
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, 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.
Current law
Capital punishment is an option for murder, hirabah, waging unjust wars,trafficking of cocaine or heroin, selling class 1 drugs (cocaine, crack cocaine or heroin) to a child under 14, use of cocaine, accepting a bribe connected to a capital offence, rape, molestation of a child under thirteen, pederasty with a boy under fourteen, production of child pornography, treason, desertion (military offence),fake charity scams, fake medical advice, dating or romance scams, treason, perfidy, bestiality, perjury, slavery, 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".