Capital punishment in Niger
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Niger. Despite its legality, the last known execution in the country was carried out in 1976 for treason. Niger is classified as "Abolitionist in Practice."[1] There were no new death sentences recorded in 2021. There were 4 people on death row in Niger at the end of 2021.[2]
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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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