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    2. No-Deal8956 on

      Technically, the UK had capital punishment until 1992, but that was for High Treason, which you have to be at war with someone to be a crime.

      I doubt even then the death sentence would be carried out.

    6. da5a on

      Failing to distinguish between the GDR and the Federal Republic is certainly a major mistake here.

    8. Afolomus on

      Germany is a bit wrong/underexplained. The last execution in east germany was 1981 – correct. But the last one in west germany, you know the democratic part, was in 1949. When they wrote their post war constitution in 1949 they abolished the death penalty. Meaning since the start of the inception of west germany as a democratic state we didn’t have a single death penalty anymore. Writing 1949 for germany would be as correct/underexplained as the 1981.

    9. Zealousideal_Till683 on

      This map is out of date. Belarus executed Viktar Skrundzik by firing squad on 16th July 2022.

      It is possible others have been executed since then.

    11. JohannesHjort on

      Denmark is inaccurate. We reintroduced it after WW2, to dispatch some traitors, before abolishing it again.

    12. Accomplished_Pea8793 on

      Were the non-Guillotine beheadings completed with an ax, sword or something else?

    13. ojessen on

      Note that 1981 would be GDR. Death penalty was banished by the FRG since inception in 1949.

    14. Kraknoix007 on

      If you post on mapporn your map has to be good, there are unexplained asterisks here

    15. PhilipLePierre on

      The last execution in Belgium was in 1950 (so theoretically „peacetime“) by firing squad. But it was related to war crimes. Capital punishment was abolished in 1996.

    16. DisneylandNo-goZone on

      The last person executed in Finland in peacetime was by beheading, the last one in wartime was by firing squad.

    22. WayEnough8027 on

      It seems that the axe went out of fashion a lot sooner than the other methods apart from Switzerland.

    23. StrictlyInsaneRants on

      That said you dont really need death penalty if your prisons are hell on earth, people just suddenly „fall out a window“ or you one day just disappear like in Russia.

    24. TrumpetsNAngels on

      This is not correct.

      For Denmark the last execution was in 1950 following WW2 where Ib Birkedal Hansen was shot.

    26. gramoun-kal on

      The fact that „beheading“ and „guillotine“ are separate makes me wonder how Scandinavians decapitate their kings…

      Oh, they haven’t yet! How quaint…

    30. AlwaysBeQuestioning on

      There’s no year for Luxembourg or Monaco.

      Also damn good job for San Marino!

    31. darcys_beard on

      How did Switzerland „behead“ in 1940? Did they just steadfastly refuse to use the Guillotine out Frankish contempt, and employ a guy in a black balaclava and an axe?

    32. LeftLiner on

      Norway executed Quisling in October 1945. This was after Norway abolished the death penalty but they still shot him (good).

    34. TonninStiflat on

      Hmm, the last Finnish peacetime execution was beheading with an axe, not firing.

      Also two other executions happened later; 1916 Taavetti Lukkarinen was hung for assisting German POW’s to escape the construction of the Murmansk railroad (so… wartime, I suppose).

      Toivo Koljonen was executed by firing squad 1943 for murdering 6 people. Happened during wartime, but was a civilian punishment, not military one.

      Last execution overall was 1944, when 3 Soviet spies/saboteurs were executed by firing squad.

    35. Flilix on

      Belgium only abolished the death penalty in 1996, but in practice they indeed stopped carrying it out in 1863. Everyone who was sentenced to death after that, automatically got mercy from the king and had to spend life in prison instead.

      However, there was one exception to this: in 1918, Emiel Ferfaille was the last person to be guillotined in Belgium.

      Ferfaille was a soldier in the war, who in 1917 had murdered his pregnant girlfriend who lived near the front line. Because this was a civil crime, he could not be executed by firing squad under military law. So in theory, he would have just got a prison sentence like all murderers. However, the authorities feared that this could lead to more soldiers committing crimes because they’d prefer a prison sentence over fighting at the front. So it was decided that Ferfaille would not be granted mercy, and for the first time in 55 years a guillotine execution was carried out in Belgium. Both guillotine and executioner had to be brought in from France.

    36. muminvater on

      Germany is very misleading, last execution in BRD (of which Germany is the legal successor) was 1949. 1981 was GDR, an unjuste state that doesn’t exist anymore

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