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Switzerland’s last execution—and the long road to abolition
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Switzerland’s last execution—and the long road to abolition
Switzerland debated the death penalty for more than two centuries before it was abolished. Enlightenment thinkers questioned it in the 18th century, but executions continued into the 20th. The last civilian execution took place in 1940. Capital punishment disappeared from ordinary criminal law in 1942 and from military law in 1992. The new federal constitution, […]
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