Capital punishment in Abkhazia

Capital punishment in Abkhazia was abolished in 2007, after a moratorium on the death sentence had been in place for a decade. In prior years, Abkhazia sentenced ten people to death for various offenses. None of those sentences were carried out.[1]

References

  1. Maxim Gunija (16 January 2007). "Abkhazia Abolishes Death Penalty". Nonviolent Radical Party.


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