The Death Penalty: List of Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries

Index Number: ACT 50/001/1999
Date Published: 25 March 1999

This document provides a list of countries indicating whether or not their laws provide for the death penalty. For abolitionist countries, information is also given, where available, on the date of abolition and the date of the last execution carried out; and for countries which have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, the date when it was abolished for ordinary offences if this was done before.