West Germany had abolished capital punishment already after WW2.
Was Romania the Ceausescu’s?
1989, firing squad
Love to see it
France guillotined someone in the late 70’s?!
Fuck.
France stayed true to the Guillotine till the end.
East kinda shit
Are you telling me that France chopped someone heard in 1977?
Russian forces filmed not one execution of Ukrainian POW in 2023
46 people were shot after ww2 in Denmark. Parliament legislated a controversial temporary law of “country damaging actions”.
It was highly critiqued, as it was used to convict people for actions that was at the time not illegal.
Officially the death sentence was abolished in 1933. But no one had been killed by the state since 1892, and the last public excecution was in 1881 https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/historier/8
Fun fact, the hanging while the last execution in the UK, the dealth penelty wasn’t actually banned for like another 20-30 years, we just kinda….stopped doing it then realised its probably a good idea to pass a law to ban it.
Which is good because our looney tunes boomers want it back….yes those born in the 1960s want it back despite no proof of any of the “positives” because it was stopped when they when most of them was being concieved.
Correction for Russia:
2023, Open Window
Who got guillotined in the Vatican what the hell
France guillotine 1977…
Just learned that my country, the Netherlands, actually abolished the death penalty in 1870 with the exception of crimes commited during war time. That was only abolished in 1983. Kinda interesting that those two can actually differ.
In Spain, the *garrote vil* was used for the last time in 1973; not the last execution, though, as correctly shown in the map.
Had Sweden been invaded like our nordic brothers in ww2 we would probably have roughly the same legal execution years as them.
Can someone explain what happened in Kazakhstan?
I’m honestly surprised at how early some countries stopped doing it. I had expected some of them to carry executions much more recently.
Oh come on, Russia executed somebody about two days ago. By pushing them out of a window.
Germany getting pulled down by the GDR here – West Germany didn’t execute anyone after 1949.
Russia, 2023, Window
The funny story that I heard about Norway’s death penalty is that they abolished the death penalty prior to WW2, Quisling reinstated it during the war and after the war ended, the Norwiegan government decided to drag it’s heels when it came to abolishing the death penalty just so they could shoot Quisling and any other Nazi collaborators and then immiedately abolished it after they were done. I’m not sure *how* true it is, but it’s funny nonetheless.
Isn’t Russia supposed to be 2023? Death by plane crash.
Sverige for the win!
I wouldn’t trust this map too much…it says Switzerland executed someone by firing squad in ’44….by then, the death penalty was already outlawed…(last one was beheading in ’40) wouldn’t be surprised if other numbers turned out to be wrong as well
Some should be sentenced to rehabilitation and some to torment and agony.
The number for germany is misleading, west Germany abolished the death penalty shortly after WW2, east germany (Soviet Union) did not
Romania’s 1989 execution is hard to place objectivly in the “legal” category .
It legal more in the sense of it being an unchallenged event legally, but the whole thing was a farce. Even if the trial had been legit or not , The Ceaușescu’s had been given right to attack the first verdict (and thus suspend the sentence) as per Romanian Law, but the men in the room simply ignored that and shot them 5 min latter lol.
The judge was found dead by “suicide” mere months after daring to somewhat follow the law by giving the Ceaușescu’s legal rights to attack their sentence
Guillotine: When you are too cool to call it beheading.
They should bring it back.
Both the last Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom executions were carried out by the same man Albert Pierrepoint though in the Republic of Ireland capital murder remained a possible executable offence after 1964 until 1990 and removed entirely in 2001. All of those capital murder offences between 1964 to 1990 were commuted to life.
1831 was the last public execution (beheading) in my city. The execution of Gesche Gottfried, a serial killer. The spot where her head landed is still marked and it is a custom to spit on it.
Oh “legal” execution. I was going to rant how Russia is in no way correct, but that word changes a lot.
While I’m not entirely opposed to the death penalty, I believe it should be reserved for the most heinous crimes. I have doubts about the rehabilitation of a very small percentage of criminals. Although I’m not sure if it might be more beneficial to keep these individuals in captivity for scientific study rather than simply ending their lives.
Iceland abolished it so early because they couldn’t find an executioner that speaks icelandic
Ireland really didn’t have enough business to keep an executioner on the pay role so they contracted the Pierrepoint family who carried out most of the UK executions. The last Pierrepoint had to double job doing grocery delivery and was later a pub landlord so not exactly steady or well paid work.
Germany is not correct. There was no martial law in West Germany after WWII. The last executions were done by the Allies after the Nuremberg Trials.
Shown date and method are from the GDR (East Germany).
Fun fact: Israel only executed two people in its history. One in 1948 when a officer was (falsely, later posthumously exonerated.) Found guilty of espionage in a drum head court martial.
The second execution was the execution of Adolf Eichmann.
I suspect Russia is lying
Saudi Arabia, beheading, last year wtf
Interesting that the last execution in Israel was Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.
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Pretty sure there are very recent executions by Russia, but probably on Ukrainian territory.
The legality of the last execution in (East) Germany is debatable, given that the sentence was overturned later. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Teske)
West Germany had abolished capital punishment already after WW2.
Was Romania the Ceausescu’s?
1989, firing squad
Love to see it
France guillotined someone in the late 70’s?!
Fuck.
France stayed true to the Guillotine till the end.
East kinda shit
Are you telling me that France chopped someone heard in 1977?
Russian forces filmed not one execution of Ukrainian POW in 2023
46 people were shot after ww2 in Denmark. Parliament legislated a controversial temporary law of “country damaging actions”.
It was highly critiqued, as it was used to convict people for actions that was at the time not illegal.
Officially the death sentence was abolished in 1933. But no one had been killed by the state since 1892, and the last public excecution was in 1881 https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/historier/8
Fun fact, the hanging while the last execution in the UK, the dealth penelty wasn’t actually banned for like another 20-30 years, we just kinda….stopped doing it then realised its probably a good idea to pass a law to ban it.
Which is good because our looney tunes boomers want it back….yes those born in the 1960s want it back despite no proof of any of the “positives” because it was stopped when they when most of them was being concieved.
Correction for Russia:
2023, Open Window
Who got guillotined in the Vatican what the hell
France guillotine 1977…
Just learned that my country, the Netherlands, actually abolished the death penalty in 1870 with the exception of crimes commited during war time. That was only abolished in 1983. Kinda interesting that those two can actually differ.
In Spain, the *garrote vil* was used for the last time in 1973; not the last execution, though, as correctly shown in the map.
Had Sweden been invaded like our nordic brothers in ww2 we would probably have roughly the same legal execution years as them.
Can someone explain what happened in Kazakhstan?
I’m honestly surprised at how early some countries stopped doing it. I had expected some of them to carry executions much more recently.
Oh come on, Russia executed somebody about two days ago. By pushing them out of a window.
Germany getting pulled down by the GDR here – West Germany didn’t execute anyone after 1949.
Russia, 2023, Window
The funny story that I heard about Norway’s death penalty is that they abolished the death penalty prior to WW2, Quisling reinstated it during the war and after the war ended, the Norwiegan government decided to drag it’s heels when it came to abolishing the death penalty just so they could shoot Quisling and any other Nazi collaborators and then immiedately abolished it after they were done. I’m not sure *how* true it is, but it’s funny nonetheless.
Isn’t Russia supposed to be 2023? Death by plane crash.
Sverige for the win!
I wouldn’t trust this map too much…it says Switzerland executed someone by firing squad in ’44….by then, the death penalty was already outlawed…(last one was beheading in ’40) wouldn’t be surprised if other numbers turned out to be wrong as well
Some should be sentenced to rehabilitation and some to torment and agony.
The number for germany is misleading, west Germany abolished the death penalty shortly after WW2, east germany (Soviet Union) did not
Romania’s 1989 execution is hard to place objectivly in the “legal” category .
It legal more in the sense of it being an unchallenged event legally, but the whole thing was a farce. Even if the trial had been legit or not , The Ceaușescu’s had been given right to attack the first verdict (and thus suspend the sentence) as per Romanian Law, but the men in the room simply ignored that and shot them 5 min latter lol.
The judge was found dead by “suicide” mere months after daring to somewhat follow the law by giving the Ceaușescu’s legal rights to attack their sentence
Guillotine: When you are too cool to call it beheading.
They should bring it back.
Both the last Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom executions were carried out by the same man Albert Pierrepoint though in the Republic of Ireland capital murder remained a possible executable offence after 1964 until 1990 and removed entirely in 2001. All of those capital murder offences between 1964 to 1990 were commuted to life.
1831 was the last public execution (beheading) in my city. The execution of Gesche Gottfried, a serial killer. The spot where her head landed is still marked and it is a custom to spit on it.
Oh “legal” execution. I was going to rant how Russia is in no way correct, but that word changes a lot.
While I’m not entirely opposed to the death penalty, I believe it should be reserved for the most heinous crimes. I have doubts about the rehabilitation of a very small percentage of criminals. Although I’m not sure if it might be more beneficial to keep these individuals in captivity for scientific study rather than simply ending their lives.
Iceland abolished it so early because they couldn’t find an executioner that speaks icelandic
Ireland really didn’t have enough business to keep an executioner on the pay role so they contracted the Pierrepoint family who carried out most of the UK executions. The last Pierrepoint had to double job doing grocery delivery and was later a pub landlord so not exactly steady or well paid work.
Germany is not correct. There was no martial law in West Germany after WWII. The last executions were done by the Allies after the Nuremberg Trials.
Shown date and method are from the GDR (East Germany).
Fun fact: Israel only executed two people in its history. One in 1948 when a officer was (falsely, later posthumously exonerated.) Found guilty of espionage in a drum head court martial.
The second execution was the execution of Adolf Eichmann.
I suspect Russia is lying
Saudi Arabia, beheading, last year wtf
Interesting that the last execution in Israel was Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.
The 1917 one in Portugal was in Belgium 💀