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

↑ Maxim Gunija (16 January 2007). "Abkhazia Abolishes Death Penalty". Nonviolent Radical Party. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Capital punishment in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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