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Year and method of last execution by country in Europe (jakubmarian.com)

submitted 4 days ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To further add to your argument, the last execution during peacetime in Finland was in 1825.

The last execution was indeed by firing squad in 1943, but that was still wartime, and the last two executed were for treason and the other for six murders. Capital punishment during wartime was on the books until early 70's.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Civil + military capital punishment was only officially abolished in 1996 in Belgium, so about 133 years between the decision to stop doing it , and actually putting that into law. And a few months after the law was officially changed, the serial murderer + pedophile Dutroux was arrested, after which there was a lot of public support for the death penalty again. A bit of fortunate timing in unfortunate times.