Capital punishment in Cape Verde

Capital punishment is not a legal punishment under the prevailing Cape Verdean law. The highest sentence is 25 years. The last execution was carried out in 1835,^[1] when the islands were part of the Portuguese Empire.

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v t e Capital punishment
Current judicial methods	Hanging Shooting firing squad Lethal injection Nitrogen hypoxia Electrocution Gas chamber Beheading Stoning
Ancient and Post-classical methods	Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel Burial Burning Crucifixion Crushing Decimation Disembowelment Dismemberment Drowning Republican marriage Elephant Falling Flaying Garrote Gibbeting Guillotine Hanged, drawn and quartered Immurement Impalement Ishikozume Mazzatello Sawing Scaphism Slow slicing Stoning Suffocation in ash Upright jerker Waist chop
Related topics	Enforcement or use by country Most recent executions by country Crime Death row Final statement Last meal Penology List of methods Religion and capital punishment Wrongful execution Botched execution Resolutions concerning death penalty at the United Nations Capital punishment for drug trafficking Capital punishment for homosexuality

v t e Capital punishment in Africa
Sovereign states	Algerien Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Kamerun Kap Verde Zentralafrikanische Republik Tschad Komoren Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Dschibuti Ägypten Äquatorial-Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Äthiopien Gabun The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenia Lesotho Liberia Libyen Madagaskar Malawi Mali Mauretanien Mauritius Marokko Mosambik Namibia Niger Nigeria Ruanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychellen Sierra Leone Somalia Südafrika South Sudan Sudan Tansania Togo Tunesien Uganda Sambia Simbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

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