Adultère, indices médicaux et recul de la torture à Genève (XVIIe siècle) by Sara Beam

“…The practice of torture declined in Geneva not because of increased reliance on medical experts but because Genevan judges eventually decided that sexual and moral crimes such as adultery did not warrant the death penalty.…”
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Le débat juridique et religieux sur la sorcellerie en Libye by Mazek Ayoub

“…The Salafi-oriented General Authority for Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, inspired by an earlier Saudi initiative, launched the “ḥaṣīn” program to combat witchcraft, accompanied by proposed laws aimed at criminalizing these practices with severe penalties, including the death penalty. In 2024, the Authority succeeded in enacting Law No. 6, which criminalizes witchcraft, conjuring, divination, and related practices. …”
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Punishment for crimes against the person in the Criminal Code of China by F.B. Muljukov, A.G. Ibragimov

“…The study shows that the Criminal Code of China, when compared with the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, imposes stricter penalties in the form of imprisonment for a fixed term and for life, death penalty for murderers, rapists for intentionally causing death to another person, rape under aggravating circumstances. …”
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The tragic route of Baron Tiesenhausen by S. A. Papkov

“…This arrest nearly resulted in the death penalty by decision of the Irkutsk provincial police. …”
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Crime of Abuse in the Light of University Students’ Opinions and Court Statistics by Barbara Małgorzata Kałdon

“…The respondents expressed their preference for long-term penalties of imprisonment, and even occasionally opted for the introduction of death penalty, which is currently not envisaged by Polish legislation. …”
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Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…By the end of 2010, lay judge panels had made five capital decisions, resulting in one life sentence, three death sentences, and one acquittal.This article examines a series of recent death penalty judgments under Japan's new lay judge system.…”
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Ukrainian SSR police activities in combating crime in the late 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…Since the mid-1950s, legislative activity in Ukraine has become more intense, the number of new regulations has increased rapidly, and their quality has improved. The death penalty – execution by firing squad - was declared an exceptional measure of punishment. …”
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'Giustizia fatta': observations sur un registre des condamnés à mort (1471–1764) de la bibliothèque de Beccaria by Pierre Musitelli

“…Through their violence, these gloomy pages and those of similar registers held at Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana, no doubt stimulated Beccaria’s humanism, Verri’s indignation, and Manzoni’s moral exactingness, all three of whom exploded the myth that the death penalty is human justice in action. In short, this register of condemned men and women allows us to understand the fertile ground in which took root the penal humanitarianism that was an essential component of the Italian Enlightenment’s intellectual history. …”
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