Capital punishment in Syria

Capital punishment is legal in Syria.^[1] Current laws allow the death penalty for treason, murder, political acts such as bearing arms against Syria in the ranks of the enemy, desertion of the armed forces to the enemy and acts of incitement under martial law or in wartime, violent robbery, rape, membership of the Muslim Brotherhood and drug trafficking.

Part of the country is occupied by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which practices extrajudicial executions and mass executions.

References

↑ Rogers, Simon (April 12, 2013). "Death penalty statistics, country by country". The Guardian.

Capital punishment

Issues	Religion and capital punishment Use by country Wrongful execution Capital punishment for drug trafficking

Current use	Note: Italics indicate countries where capital punishment has not been used in the last ten years or that have a moratorium in effect. Antigua and Barbuda Afghanistan Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana China Cuba Dominica Egypt Grenada Guatemala Guyana India Indonesia Iran Iraq Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya North Korea South Korea Laos Lebanon Malaysia Nigeria Pakistan Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Somalia Sri Lanka St Kitts and Nevis St Lucia St Vincent and the Grenadines Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Trinidad and Tobago United Arab Emirates United States Vietnam Yemen

Past use	Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bhutan Brazil Bulgaria Canada Croatia Cyprus Denmark Ecuador Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hong Kong Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Liechtenstein Macau Macedonia Mexico Mongolia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia South Africa Spain Suriname Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uzbekistan Venezuela

Methods still in use	Crucifixion Decapitation Electrocution Firing squad Forced suicide Gas chamber Hanging Lethal injection Shooting Stoning

Methods no longer in use	Beasts Bestiarii Damnatio ad bestias Elephant Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel Burial Burning Crushing Disembowelment Dismemberment Drowning Republican marriage Falling Flaying Garrote Hanged, drawn and quartered Immurement Impalement Ishikozume Mazzatello Sawing Scaphism Slow slicing Suffocation in ash Upright jerker Waist chop

Related punishments	Civil death Outlaw Extrajudicial killing

Related topics	Crime Death row Last meal Penology Qiṣāṣ

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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