Capital punishment in Andorra was abolished in 1990, having last been used in 1943.
Pere Areny was the last man to be executed in
Andorra
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. Originally sentenced to be executed by
garrote, he was instead shot by a
firing squad
Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French ''fusil'', rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are ...
for the murder of his brother, Antoni Areny, on 18 October 1943.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
was abolished in Andorra in 1990
and Protocol No. 6 to the
ECHR came into force on 1 February 1996.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20050324105012/http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32%40btinternet.com/europe.html
Law of Andorra
Andorr
Human rights in Andorra
1990 disestablishments in Andorra
Death in Andorra
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