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

BELARUS

 
government: presidential republic in name, although in fact a dictatorship
state of civil and political rights: Not free
constitution: 15 March 1994; amended 1996, 2004
legal system: civil law system; has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration
legislative system: bicameral National Assembly (Natsionalnoye Sobranie) consists of the Council of the Republic (Soviet Respubliki) and the House of Representatives (Palata Predstaviteley)
judicial system: Supreme Court (consists of the chairman and deputy chairman and organized into several specialized panels, including economic and military; number of judges set by the president of the republic and the court chairman); Constitutional Court (consists of 12 judges, including a chairman and deputy chairman); oblast courts; Minsk City Court; town courts; Minsk city and oblast economic courts
religion: Orthodox 48.3%, Catholic 7.1%, other 3.5%, non-believers 41.1% (2011 est.)
death row: 2 (31 December 2018)
year of last executions: 0-0-0
death sentences: 1
executions: 0
international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

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