Myanmar (Burma)
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- military
- CONSTITUTION
- May 10, 2008
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, People's Assembly (Pyithu Hluttaw)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- limited, dependent on the executive
RELIGIONS
89% Buddhists; Hindu, Muslim, and Christian minorities
From the country
- MARCH 3, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 3, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
In Myanmar (formerly Burma) capital crimes are: murder,
JANUARY 16, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR LOVE TRIANGLE MURDER
A local court in Ayeyarwady Region sentenced a former healthcare assistant to death by hanging on 13 January 2020 for murdering a schoolteacher and hiding the corpse after a love triangle turned violent in 2016.
JULY 2, 2019Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: GUNMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN MANDALAY
Mandalay District Court on 27 June 2019 sentenced a man to death for an armed robbery that resulted in the death of a woman in Chan Mya Tharsi township in Mandalay Region.
FEBRUARY 18, 2019Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SUU KYI AIDE
A court in Myanmar on 15 February 2019 sentenced two men to death for the killing of a prominent Muslim lawyer who was a close adviser to the country’s top leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
BURMA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER OF 19-YEAR-OLD STUDENT
The Kyaukse Township court sentenced three men involved in the killing of a student from the Kyaukse Government Technical Institute on 19 November 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Kengtung District Court in eastern Shan State on September 17, 2018 ruled that two men to be hanged till death for rape and murder of a 19-year-old tenth grader, according to Shan State Police Force.
JUNE 19, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: PARLIAMENT VOTES DOWN DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD RAPISTS
Myanmar’s parliament voted down a proposal to give the death penalty to convicted child rapists
APRIL 18, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: PRESIDENT GRANTS GENERAL AMNESTY FOR 8541 PRISONERS
President Win Myint granted a general amnesty for 8541 prisoners including 36 prisoners of conscience and 51 foreign ones to mark Myanmar New Year day which falls on April 17.
MARCH 23, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MANDALAY COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DIE FOR CHILD RAPE
A Mandalay court sentenced to death a man for raping a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Madaya township last month.
FEBRUARY 23, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: FOUR ROHINGYAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ATTACK ON POLICE OUTPOST
Four Rohingya militants were sentenced to death by a special court in Maungdaw district of Rakhaine state in Myanmar, according to a report by The Irrawaddy news magazine.
- JUNE 22, 2017Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: 'EXORCIST' SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER KILLING TWO TODDLERS AND AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD BABY
A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he believed would banish evil spirits that possessed them.