Capital punishment in Liberia
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Liberia. However, Liberia is classified as a state that is "abolitionist in practice." Liberia last executed in 2000.[1]
Liberia acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 16 September 2005.[2] However, Liberia expanded the scope of the death penalty in 2008, which was met with international criticism.[3] However, in July 2022, the Senate of Liberia passed a bill to abolish the death penalty.[4][5]
There were no new death sentences in Liberia in 2021. There was estimated to be at least 16 people on death row at the end of 2021.[6]
References
- ^ "Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)". Amnesty International. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "12. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty". United Nations Treaty Collection. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
- ^ "Liberia: Death penalty introduced for new crimes: Blatant violation of the country's international commitments". UNHCR. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Liberian Senate Abolishes Death Penalty, Receive Commendations From The Public". GNN Liberia. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Liberia: Senate Votes to Abolish Death Penalty". Liberian Observer. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Death sentences and executions 2021". Amnesty International. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
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Capital punishment
- Hanging
- Shooting
- Lethal injection
- Nitrogen hypoxia
- Electrocution
- Gas chamber
- Beheading
- Stoning
Post-classical
methods
- Damnatio ad bestias
- Blood eagle
- Blowing from a gun
- Brazen bull
- Boiling
- Breaking wheel
- Burial
- Burning
- Crucifixion
- Crushing
- Disembowelment
- Dismemberment
- Drowning
- Elephant
- Falling
- Flaying
- Garrote
- Gibbeting
- Guillotine
- Hanged, drawn and quartered
- Immurement
- Impalement
- Ishikozume
- Mazzatello
- Sawing
- Scaphism
- Slow slicing
- Stoning
- Suffocation in ash
- Upright jerker
- Waist chop
- Enforcement or 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
- Botched execution
- Resolutions concerning death penalty at the United Nations
- Capital punishment for drug trafficking
- Capital punishment for homosexuality
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