Capital punishment in San Marino
Capital punishment is no longer applied in San Marino. The last execution was carried out in 1468, by hanging.[1][2] San Marino is one of only two countries in the world to have carried out no executions since before 1800 - the other being Liechtenstein, where the last execution took place in 1785.[3]
San Marino was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty for ordinary crimes, in 1848; in 1865, it became the second country in the world (and the first in Europe) to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, following Venezuela in 1863.[4] It is one of only three countries to have abolished the death penalty for all crimes before 1900 - the third one being Costa Rica.[5][6]
In 1989, it formally ratified Protocol 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which requires the complete abolition of the death penalty in peacetime.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Death Penalty Archived August 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Belgorod State University
- ^ "The end of capital punishment in Europe", Capital Punishment UK
- ^ "Death Penalty Statistics 2006", Amnesty International
- ^ Determinants of the death penalty: a comparative study of the world, Carsten Anckar, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-33398-9, p.17
- ^ Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition, Council of Europe, 2004, ISBN 92-871-5332-9, p.32
- ^ "THE DEATH PENALTY: ABOLITION GAINS GROUND" Archived March 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine., Martine Jacot, UNESCO Courier, October 1999
- ^ "The end of capital punishment in Europe", Capital Punishment UK
