executions in the world:

In 2024

0

2000 to present

0

legend:

Abolitionist
retentionist
De facto abolitionist
Moratorium on executions
Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
Committed to abolishing the death penalty

BRAZIL

government: federal presidential republic

state of civil and political rights: Free

constitution: 5 October 1988

legal system: based on Roman codes

legislative system: bicameral National Congress and the Chamber of Deputies

judicial system: Supreme Federal Tribunal

religion: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, other

death row:

year of last executions: 0-0-0

death sentences: 0

executions: 0

international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

situation:

South America

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.