1981 is the last execution in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) whereas it’s 1949 in the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD).
I’m always confused why people in Europe are so proud of not having the death penalty. If someone raped your mom and cut her head of off that person absolutely deserves to die and can not be rehabilitated in any way. People adapt and some inmates grow to tolerate prison, even a life scentence. Not having the death penalty also makes certain crimes unintentionally get a lesser punishment over others. For example one person may have gotten a couple robbery chargers prior and then robbed a bank while armed. Say that guy gets life for this crime and priors. Then you have a guy that dismembers children that also gets life, is that justice to you? Here in the US our problem (imo of course) is that these pieces of human filth sit on death row for DECADES and some die before they are put to death. People on death row should be killed within 5 years of sentencing so that the scentence actually means something. I’m a fairly liberal guy in many ways I just can’t understand people being so against the death penalty for horrific crimes. I can only imagine these people have never known a victim of one of these crimes or experienced serious crime in their entire lives.
Edit: a poll of what Europeans actually think. Not really surprised reddit has all of one side lol.
Worth noting that a few of these executions were post WWII executions for wartime crimes in countries that had otherwise already abolished capital punishment.
Any country still using the capital punishment in the 21st century disqualifies itself from the civilized world imho.
Unpopular opinion – death penalty is more humane than long prison sentences. Especially when the person is in fact innocent
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Romania’s last one is iconic
1989 Christmas Day…and what a present
Putin is gaming the definition a bit… I guess it’s not the death penalty if you bypass the legal system.
Who was executed in belarus in 2019?.i thought death penalty is abolished in all of the world
Sweden’s last execution was also the first, last, and only one by guillotine. It was ordered from France, of course. That was really not a good use of public funds, buying a brand new guillotine, and only using it once.
In Russia you don’t get capital punishment, you simply choke on your food or disappear.
The last time someone got the death-penalty in a civilian court in the Netherlands was in 1860.
The execution in 1952 was a military court.
The Portugal one I think it wasn’t even in Portugal, it was a some soldier that was executed for deserting (or beeing simpatetic with the Germans) during WW1
San Marino being 350 years earlier than the rest of Europe.
Ok but the french kept using the guilottine so they get bonus points.
I’m surprised turkey doesn’t still execute people
My ex girlfriends great grandfather conducted the last execution in Danmark.
He was supposed to conduct the execution by beheading but botched it and hit the victim in the shoulder instead and having to pull out the axe and try again.
He had previously performed these perfectly so there was quite a bit of speculation as to why this happened. It is widely claimed that he was drunk but his own family were adamant that it was because it was raining and rhe surface the execution was on was slippery.
Needless to say that after the scandal of the violent event the judges lost taste for applying the death penalty and stopped using it. Then in 1971 it was outright outlawed even in the military.
I’m so glad death penalty got abolished in Poland. I remember my father talking about how Zdzisław Marchwicki, supposedly one of the most prolific serial killers in Polish history got sentenced to death based on absolutely no evidence. Hardly anybody from Silesia believed he was guilty when he got murdered by the state. It was hard for me to believe but then I read trascripts of the trial and it was absolutely 100 % a political decision. Alternative suspect killed himself after confessing to the crime. After long, expensive investigation authorities just couldn’t accept that. They needed to capture someone themselves.
If you need your blood pressure rised you can read more about this case:
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Germany should somehow be split up.
1981 is the last execution in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) whereas it’s 1949 in the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD).
I’m always confused why people in Europe are so proud of not having the death penalty. If someone raped your mom and cut her head of off that person absolutely deserves to die and can not be rehabilitated in any way. People adapt and some inmates grow to tolerate prison, even a life scentence. Not having the death penalty also makes certain crimes unintentionally get a lesser punishment over others. For example one person may have gotten a couple robbery chargers prior and then robbed a bank while armed. Say that guy gets life for this crime and priors. Then you have a guy that dismembers children that also gets life, is that justice to you? Here in the US our problem (imo of course) is that these pieces of human filth sit on death row for DECADES and some die before they are put to death. People on death row should be killed within 5 years of sentencing so that the scentence actually means something. I’m a fairly liberal guy in many ways I just can’t understand people being so against the death penalty for horrific crimes. I can only imagine these people have never known a victim of one of these crimes or experienced serious crime in their entire lives.
Edit: a poll of what Europeans actually think. Not really surprised reddit has all of one side lol.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/public-opinion-polls/international-polls-and-studies
Based Belarus
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Worth noting that a few of these executions were post WWII executions for wartime crimes in countries that had otherwise already abolished capital punishment.
Any country still using the capital punishment in the 21st century disqualifies itself from the civilized world imho.
Unpopular opinion – death penalty is more humane than long prison sentences. Especially when the person is in fact innocent
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Romania’s last one is iconic
1989 Christmas Day…and what a present
Putin is gaming the definition a bit… I guess it’s not the death penalty if you bypass the legal system.
Who was executed in belarus in 2019?.i thought death penalty is abolished in all of the world
Sweden’s last execution was also the first, last, and only one by guillotine. It was ordered from France, of course. That was really not a good use of public funds, buying a brand new guillotine, and only using it once.
In Russia you don’t get capital punishment, you simply choke on your food or disappear.
The last time someone got the death-penalty in a civilian court in the Netherlands was in 1860.
The execution in 1952 was a military court.
The Portugal one I think it wasn’t even in Portugal, it was a some soldier that was executed for deserting (or beeing simpatetic with the Germans) during WW1
San Marino being 350 years earlier than the rest of Europe.
Ok but the french kept using the guilottine so they get bonus points.
I’m surprised turkey doesn’t still execute people
My ex girlfriends great grandfather conducted the last execution in Danmark.
He was supposed to conduct the execution by beheading but botched it and hit the victim in the shoulder instead and having to pull out the axe and try again.
He had previously performed these perfectly so there was quite a bit of speculation as to why this happened. It is widely claimed that he was drunk but his own family were adamant that it was because it was raining and rhe surface the execution was on was slippery.
Needless to say that after the scandal of the violent event the judges lost taste for applying the death penalty and stopped using it. Then in 1971 it was outright outlawed even in the military.
I’m so glad death penalty got abolished in Poland. I remember my father talking about how Zdzisław Marchwicki, supposedly one of the most prolific serial killers in Polish history got sentenced to death based on absolutely no evidence. Hardly anybody from Silesia believed he was guilty when he got murdered by the state. It was hard for me to believe but then I read trascripts of the trial and it was absolutely 100 % a political decision. Alternative suspect killed himself after confessing to the crime. After long, expensive investigation authorities just couldn’t accept that. They needed to capture someone themselves.
If you need your blood pressure rised you can read more about this case:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Marchwicki
“The death penalty is barbaric!”
*Hears about this guy who raped and murdered children.
“Damn this guy should really die.”