executions in the world:

In 2024

0

2000 to present

0

legend:

  • Abolitionist
  • retentionist
  • De facto abolitionist
  • Moratorium on executions
  • Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
  • Committed to abolishing the death penalty

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

 
government: parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
state of civil and political rights: Partly free
constitution: 16 September 1975; amended many times, last in 2016
legal system: mixed legal system of English common law and customary law; has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration
legislative system: Unicameral National Parliament
judicial system: Supreme Court (consists of the chief justice, deputy chief justice, 35 justices, and 5 acting justices); National Courts (consists of 13 courts located in the provincial capitals, with a total of 19 resident judges); district, village, and juvenile courts, military courts, taxation courts, coronial courts, mining warden courts, land courts, traffic courts, committal courts, grade five courts
religion: Protestant 64.3% (Evangelical Lutheran 18.4%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.9%, Pentecostal 10.4%, United Church 10.3%, Evangelical Alliance 5.9%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.8%, Salvation Army 0.4%), Roman Catholic 26%, other Christian 5.3%, non-Christian 1.4%, unspecified 3.1% (2011 est.)
death row: 12, as of end 2017
year of last executions: 0-0-1954
death sentences: 0
executions: 0
international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

situation:

 

Asia, Middle East, Australia and Oceania