Lebanon Parliament Abolishes Death Penalty After 22-Year-Long Unofficial Moratorium
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The Parliament of the country of cedars votes for the formal abolition of the death penalty, which makes it the first Arab country to eliminate it from its legislation
Lebanon Parliament Abolishes Death Penalty After 22-Year-Long Unofficial Moratorium
On August 11, 2026, the Parliament of Lebanon passed legislation formally abolishing the death penalty. The country’s abolition marks the first country in the Middle East to abolish the practice and the second country among the League of Arab States to do so (Djibouti abolished in 1995). A majority of the members in Lebanon’s 128-seat Parliament voted in favor of this legislation, with Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc vot…
The legislation adopted by the Lebanese Parliament provides for the abolition of the death penalty for those convicted and its replacement by life imprisonment with “aggravated forced labour”.
The Lebanese President today ratified the law on the abolition of the death penalty in the country, adopted by Parliament last week, making Lebanon the first country to revoke capital punishment in the Middle East.
The death penalty is still in force in the legal systems of several countries of the Caribbean, although executions have not been carried out in the region for years. Against this background, Lebanon is the first country in the Middle East to officially abolish the death penalty, while the Dominican Republic, where it is banned by constitutional law, has chosen another way [...] The post The Caribbean keeps the death penalty at first appeared on…
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