capital punishment in Bhutan
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Capital punishment in Bhutan was abolished on March 20, 2004{{cite web |url=http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3887 |title=Capital punishment abolished in Bhutan |publisher=Kuensel |author=Kinley Dorji |date=2007-03-27 |access-date=2011-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713173401/http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3887 |archive-date=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead }} and is prohibited under the 2008 Constitution.[http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20(A5).pdf Constitution of Bhutan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162637/http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20%28A5%29.pdf |date=July 6, 2011 }}, Art. 7, § 18 The prohibition appears among a number of fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution; while some fundamental rights—such as voting, land ownership, and equal pay—extend only to Bhutanese citizens, the prohibition on capital punishment applies to all people within the kingdom.
History
Under the reforms to the Tsa Yig by the first King of Bhutan, Ugyen Wangchuck, capital punishment was the penalty for murderers who fled the scene and for those who forged government documents.{{cite book|last=White |first=J. Claude |title= Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier, 1887–1908 |chapter=Appendix I – The Laws of Bhutan |pages=301–10 |year=1909 |publisher=Longmans, Green & Co. |location=New York |isbn=9780598739278 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADxuAAAAMAAJ |access-date=2010-12-25}} Under the National Security Act of 1992, the death penalty was designated for those guilty of "treasonable acts" or of overt acts "with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy in order to deliberately and voluntarily betray" the royal government.{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalcouncil.bt/images/stories/NationalSecurity_En_92.pdf |title=National Security Act of Bhutan 1992 |publisher=Government of Bhutan |date=1992-11-02 |access-date=2011-01-21 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
On April 5, 1964, Prime Minister Jigme Palden Dorji was assassinated in a dispute among competing political factions. The King's own uncle and head of the Royal Bhutan Army, Namgyal Bahadur, was among those executed for their role in the attempted coup.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1171693.stm |title=Timeline: Bhutan |date=2010-05-05 |publisher=BBC News online |access-date=2010-10-01}}{{cite book |last1=Worden |first1=Robert L. |editor=Savada, Andrea Matles |title=Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies |chapter=Modernization under Jigme Dorji, 1952–72 |edition=3rd |year=1991 |publisher=Federal Research Division, United States Library of Congress |isbn=0-8444-0777-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/nepalbhutancount00sava |access-date=2010-10-19 |url-access=registration }}
See also
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20(A5).pdf |title=The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan |date=2008-07-18 |publisher=Government of Bhutan |access-date=2010-10-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162637/http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20%28A5%29.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Dzongkha%20(A5).pdf |title=༄༅།།འབྲུག་གི་རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ།། |trans-title=The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan |date=2008-07-18 |publisher=Government of Bhutan |language=dz |access-date=2010-10-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706163717/http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Dzongkha%20%28A5%29.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 }}
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