Death Penalty

Death Penalty Death penalty in Denmark In Denmark where I live, death penalty was abolished in 1978. The last civil execution happened in 1892. In the years after Second World War reintroduced Denmark death penalty temporarily. A special law retroactively made it possible to punish crimes committed, during the German occupation 1940-45. 46 persons were on that background executed by volunteer police officers. Death penalty in the world Today maintains 58 of the world's 197 countries the death penalty. 9 countries sentence to death only for particularly serious crimes - such as crimes against military law. 34 countries refrain from