In certain countries illegal importing, exporting, sale, or possession of drugs constitute capital offences that may result in the death penalty. According to a 2011 article by the Lawyers Collective, an NGO in India, "32 countries impose capital punishment for offences involving narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances." A 2012 report by Harm Reduction International "documents the 33 countries and territories that retain death penalty for drug offences, including 13 in which the sentence is mandatory."
A 2009 CNN article lists penalties for drug-related crime in Asia by country. Since then President Thein Sein of Myanmar commuted all of the country's death sentences to life imprisonment in January 2014. South Korea has the death penalty for drugs. But South Korea has a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since it has not executed anybody since 1997, even though there are still people on death row, and even though new death sentences have been handed down in the last few years.
A 2015 article by The Economist says 32 countries have the death penalty for drug smuggling, but only 6 really carry it out.
Video Capital punishment for drug trafficking
Countries that have the death penalty for some drug crimes
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See also
- Legality of cannabis#Use of capital punishment against the cannabis trade
- Misuse of Drugs Act (Singapore)
- Capital punishment in Singapore
- Capital punishment in the Republic of China
- Van Tuong Nguyen
- Akmal Shaikh, a British national who was executed in China for drug trafficking in 2009
- Use of capital punishment by country
References
External links
Methods of execution:
- Methods of Execution. Death Penalty Worldwide project.
- Methods of Execution by Country - NutzWorld.com
Resources for references:
- Death Penalty | StoptheDrugWar.org. Ongoing compilation of articles about countries sentencing people to death for drug offenses.
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