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Chinese. On 11 April 2024, at 4:43 AM, [1] a 20-year-old Chinese male gamer known as "Fat Cat" ( simplified Chinese: 胖猫; traditional Chinese: 胖貓; pinyin: Pàngmāo) committed suicide by jumping off the Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge after transferring RMB 66,000 (US$9,000 at the time) to his girlfriend, who wanted to break up with him.
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. [3]
Recorded March 23, 2023. Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either post, and has also led the White House Council of ...
Following the abolition of the death penalty, life imprisonment was made an official punishment in 1878. A few years after gaining independence in 1815, the Kingdom of the Netherlands determined that the death penalty could be carried out through beheading. [1] Between 1945 and 1952, 142 war criminals from World War II were sentenced to death ...
In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [b] [1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 states and in the federal capital, Washington, D.C. [2] It is usually applied for only the most ...
Capital punishment by country. Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state -sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the world. Since the mid-19th century many countries have abolished or discontinued the practice.
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus retains the death penalty only for crimes committed under special circumstances (war crimes). See also Capital punishment in Cyprus. There is no death penalty in Kosovo. The Donetsk People's Republic introduced the death penalty in 2014 for cases of treason, espionage, and assassination of political leaders.
Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes, including those committed in time of war, on 1 January 1973. The clause that prohibits the death penalty has been part of the Constitution since 1975. Sweden is a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (ratified in 1990 [2] ), Protocol No. 6 (1984), and Protocol No. 13 (2003) to ECHR.