Capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

is abolished in Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela was the first country (still existing) in the world to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, doing so by Constitution in 1864.

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had abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only in 1848, but abolished it for all crimes in 1865. Costa Rica followed suit in 1877, making Venezuela one of just three countries to have abolished the death penalty by 1900."THE DEATH PENALTY: ABOLITION GAINS GROUND"
, Martine Jacot, ''UNESCO Courier'', October 1999

References

Law of Venezuela

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

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