Capital punishment in Uzbekistan

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Capital punishment in Uzbekistan has been abolished.[1]

On August 1, 2005, President Islam Karimov signed a decree stating that “the death penalty shall be cancelled in the Republic of Uzbekistan as of January 1, 2008, as a form of criminal punishment and shall be replaced by sentence for life or long prison terms”. The reason given for the three-year delay was the need to build new prisons to house people condemned to life terms instead of death.[2]

The last execution in Uzbekistan took place in 2005.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/abolitionist-and-retentionist-countries
  2. ^ http://www.handsoffcain.info/bancadati/schedastato.php?idstato=17000242
  3. ^ http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/countries-abolitionist-for-all-crimes
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