Cambodia abolished capital punishment for all crimes in April 1989, and the 1993 Constitution kept the ban in Article 32. Drug trafficking later carried long prison terms and, at the top quantity bands, life imprisonment, but no drug offence could carry death. The abolition is the reason no cannabis offence in Cambodia can carry a death sentence.[1][2]
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References
- Amnesty International — Against the Tide: The death penalty in Southeast Asia (1997)introduction and country section, p. 51: 'Cambodia abolished the death penalty in April 1989'archived
- The Phnom Penh Post — Death penalty has no place (10 October 2012), by James Heenan and Olivier Lermet, reproduced by OHCHR and UNODCparagraphs 7–9: ban since 1989, Article 32 of the 1993 Constitutionarchived
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