The death penalty is one of the oldest punishments in the world, and every country in the world has a different history of death penalty. China is the country that applies the death penalty with the largest number of crimes, and there are currently 55 death penalty crimes. According to the criminal law, the death penalty is applicable to "extremely serious crimes".
1. At present, 65,438+040 countries have abolished or not used the death penalty. * * * There are three situations:
1. Abolish 88 death sentences.
2. Under normal circumstances, seven countries have abolished all the death penalty (Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Fiji, Israel, Kazakhstan and Peru).
3. There are 33 cases where the law has not been abolished but the death penalty has been executed for more than ten years.
8 in Asia: Brunei, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan;
Europe 1: Russia;
Africa 265,438+0: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia and Zambia;
North America 1: Grenada;
South America 1: Suriname;
3 in Oceania: Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Tonga;
Two. Countries and regions that still use the death penalty:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan Province Province of China, Japan, North Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Syria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Belarus, Egypt. Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Libya, Lesotho, Botswana, Gambia, Guinea, Cuba, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Guatemala, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago.