Kazakhstan Abolishes The Death Penalty

 

     Kazakhstan has now made official its abolition of the death penalty. The former Soviet state, which banned executions of women, minors, and the elderly in the 1990s, placed a moratorium on the death penalty in 2003, and later abolished it for all execpt a few severe and wartime offenses, has now abolished it in its totality, effective January 1st, 2021.

     All those sentenced to death will now serve life imprisonment instead. Kazakhstan is the 106th country to abolish the death penalty, and only 35 countries actively conduct executions.