Explore: Executions (international Law)

court-martial, but the term usually denotes the summary execution of a sentence of death. Under international law, it is defined as a combatant's refusal to accept

retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed

International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of rules, norms, legal customs and standards that states

The Nuremberg executions took place on the early morning of October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials. Ten prominent members

of executions is unknown. Other countries, like Myanmar and Libya, have conducted extrajudicial executions.   Maintain the death penalty in both law and

last public execution in the U.S. took place in 1937 in Missouri, after which most states began requiring executions to be held privately. Laws now generally

criminals to execution. Under Xuanzong capital punishment was relatively infrequent, with only 24 executions in the year 730 and 58 executions in the year

nearly everywhere. At many points in the past, public executions were preferred to executions behind closed doors because of their capacity for deterrence

2024, executions reached a new high of 345, almost exactly doubling the 172 executions carried out in 2023. In the first half of 2025 180 executions took

least 977 executions in 2015, at least 567 executions in 2016, and at least 507 executions in 2017. In 2018 there were at least 249 executions, at least