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Capital punishment in Uzbekistan has been abolished.

On August 1, 2005, President Islam Karimov signed a decree stating that “the death penalty shall be cancelled in the Republic of Uzbekistan as of January 1, 2008, as a form of criminal punishment and shall be replaced by sentence for life or long prison terms”. The reason given for the three-year delay was the need to build new prisons to house people condemned to life terms instead of the death penalty.

The last execution in Uzbekistan took place in 2005.

References

1. "Abolitionist and retentionist countries | Amnesty International". Amnesty.org. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
2. "HANDS OFF CAIN against death penalty in the world". Handsoffcain.info. 1992-12-08. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
3. "Death penalty: Countries abolitionist for all crimes | Amnesty International". Amnesty.org. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2014-02-23.

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