Capital_punishment_in_Tajikistan Knowpia

Capital punishment in Tajikistan is allowed by Article 18 of the 1999 Constitution of Tajikistan, which provides:

"Every person has the right to life. No person may be deprived of life except by the verdict of a court for a very serious crime."^[1]

The last known execution took place in 2004.^{[citation needed]} That same year, President Emomali Rahmon announced a moratorium on capital punishment.

Tajikistan is not signatory to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which aims to abolish the death penalty.^[2]

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^ The 1994 Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan, English translation (raw draft)
^ Ratification of Second Optional Protocol on abolition of death penalty

[1] The 1994 Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan, English translation (raw draft)

[2] Ratification of Second Optional Protocol on abolition of death penalty

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