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Retentionist countries
  • Afghanistan
  • Bahamas
  • Bangladesh
  • Bahrain
  • Belarus
  • Botswana
  • China
  • Cuba
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Maldives
  • Nigeria
  • North Korea
  • Pakistan
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United States
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen
Retentionist countries with
recently imposed moratorium
  • Comoros
  • The Gambia
  • Indonesia
  • Lesotho
  • Malaysia
Abolitionist in
practice countries
  • Brunei
  • Kenya
  • Laos
  • Morocco
  • Russia
  • South Korea
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Tonga
Abolitionist for
ordinary crimes only
  • Brazil
  • Guatemala
  • Israel
  • Peru
Abolitionist countries
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belgium
  • Bhutan
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Cambodia
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  • Iceland
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  • Rwanda
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Current judicial methods
  • Hanging
  • Shooting
    • firing squad
  • Lethal injection
  • Electrocution
  • Gas inhalation
  • Beheading
  • Stoning
Ancient and
Post-classical
methods
  • Bestiarii
    • Damnatio ad bestias
  • Blood eagle
  • Blowing from a gun
  • Brazen bull
  • Boiling
  • Breaking wheel
  • Burial
  • Burning
  • Crucifixion
  • Crushing
  • Disembowelment
  • Dismemberment
  • Drowning
    • Republican marriage
  • Elephant
  • Falling
  • Flaying
  • Garrote
  • Guillotine
  • Hanged, drawn and quartered
  • Immurement
  • Impalement
  • Ishikozume
  • Mazzatello
  • Sawing
  • Scaphism
  • Slow slicing
  • Stoning
  • Suffocation in ash
  • Upright jerker
  • Waist chop
Related topics
  • Use by country
  • Most recent executions by country
  • Crime
  • Death row
  • Final statement
  • Last meal
  • Penology
  • List of methods
  • Religion and capital punishment
  • Wrongful execution
  • Capital punishment for drug trafficking
  • Capital punishment for homosexuality
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