jan 1, 1998 - Abolishment of Capital punishment

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- Once the legal system admitted right of appeal to criminal cases and that it was fallible, it became increasingly difficult to maintain an irreversible punishment. In medieval times it was easier to maintain such penalty, as there was a belief that Justice was provided by God.
- In the United Kingdom, it was abolished for murder (leaving only treason, piracy with violence, arson in royal dockyards and a number of wartime military offences as capital crimes) for a five-year experiment in 1965 and permanently in 1969, the last execution having taken place in 1964. It was abolished for all peacetime offences in 1998.[58]

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