Capital Punishment on Eurth
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The following is a summary of the use of capital punishment on Eurth by country.
Capital punishment has been formally abolished by statute or constitution
Capital punishment is abolished-in-practice
Capital punishment is permitted for specific scenarios
Capital punishment is legal
Key | Country | Year implemented | Year of last execution | Year abolished | Notes |
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Batengdei | Since Founding | 2006 | N/A | Executions are exclusive to prisoners serving life sentences who refuse to work appointed prison jobs for over 5 years at any time. This system was set in place to reduce government expenditures on life prisoners and is not used as a formal sentence in court. Prisoners serving life sentences may receive the sentence if the prisoner is deemed unfit for work by the People's Supreme Court. | |
Cashar | 450 | 1753 | 1770 | Capital punishment is abolished. Hardened criminals are sentenced to a life of hard labor. | |
Cristina | Since Founding | ? | N/A | Capital punishment is permitted for cases involving murder, certain aggrivated drug-trafficking or firearms offenses. | |
Dolchland | Since Founding | 2018 | N/A | Public execution is commonly used for those who have committed a grievous crime such as murder, sedition, treason, or rape. It is by far not the worst punishment available though, as rapists are often gelded and others have been lobotomised and turned into docile slaves before. | |
Faramount | 1963 | 2019 | N/A | Faramount routinely uses capital punishment against dissidents and insurgents, ignoring constitutional provisions severely limiting the death penalty. | |
Fulgistan | Since Founding | 2015 | 2020 | Retained for treason, terrorism, and other crimes against the state, as well as crimes committed during wartime. Set to be abolished by 2020. | |
Heiheguo | Since Founding | 2020 | N/A | Capital punishment is solely given out by the Shengren, who decides whether a crime is dire enough to warrant the death penalty or not. | |
Hemahat | Since Founding | 2017 | N/A | Capital Punishment is considered a valid punishment for treason and murder. However, only exceptional cases are actually given the death penalty, particularly cases with high amounts of publicity. The majority of the convicted are instead sentenced to life imprisonment. | |
Littland | Since Founding | 1931 | 1965 | Capital punishment was abolished following the adoption of the 1965 Constitution. | |
Mahana | Since Founding | 1991 | 1992 | Capital punishment in Mahana was prevalent throughout a majority of history, especially during the 20th century during the 'royal regime' which the family would use capital punishment to keep any opposition to their rule in line. However, it was not officially banned in constitution following the dissolution of the royal family but has not been used since Mahana became a republic in 1992. | |
Mauridiviah | 1989 | 2018 | N/A | Capital punishment was briefly abolished in 1988, but it was reinstated as a non-constitutional provision in the Compromise of 1989. Before this, every predecessor state has employed capital punishment in hinterlands. Capital punishment is retained for persons who have murdered more than 3 people or killed less than 3 people in really awful manners. Treason is still punishable by death although not many people have been executed for treason excluding the insurgents of the Sitian Liberation Army. Execution is the most common sentence for war crimes, terrorism, and crimes against humanity. | |
Oyus | Since Founding | 1938 | 1940 | Capital punishment was abolished in 1940 after 2 years of protests against the then democratic government of Oyus after the rare execution of an inmate, who was sentenced 15 years prior. | |
Seylos | Since Founding | 1964 | 1964 | Capital punishment was abolished in 1964 following large scale protests of a brutal botched execution of a political prisoner. | |
Shffahkia | 1908 | 2019 | N/A | Capital punishment is most often conducted through public excecutions and granted on a case by case basis by a judge. If a sentence is reviewed, it can be lowered or increases on the discression of the judge. | |
Stedoria | Since Founding | 2021 | N/A | Capital punishment is permitted for crimes such as drug trafficking, murder, rape, treason, counterrevolutionary activities, and other high-level crimes. The most common execution methods are the firing squad or guillotine. Executions typically happen in private; though if there is significant public outrage due to the nature of the crime, a judge may permit an execution to be carried in public in order for citizens witness justice carried out. | |
Sunset Sea Islands | Since Founding | 1947 | 1947 | Capital punishment was abolished in 1947 following the liberation from the oppressive regime of Mat Troi Lan. | |
Variota | 1757 | 2016 | N/A | A law change in 1757 limited capital punishment to those that were found guilty of particularly heinous crimes such as piracy, terrorism, treason and large amounts of murder and/or rape, be they human or animal. Generally, however, these criminals are sentenced to max security 'werklaaghers', where they are forced to toil for the benefit of the entire nation, instead of receiving capital punishment as it is deemed a harsher punishment to work and live in prison until death. |