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death row:
year of last executions: 0-0-0
death sentences: 0
executions: 0
international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:
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Rhode Island does not have the death penalty. Its mandatory death penalty law was ruled unconstitutional by a state court decision in 1979. The legislature abolished the death penalty in 1984.
