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

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[–] 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.