United Kingdom
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- unwritten, partly common law, partly customs and statutes
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on common law traditions with some influences from the modern Roman and continental system, acts of Parliament are not reviewed by the judiciary
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, House of Commons and House of Lords
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- House of Lords (is the highest court of appeal) some Lords are appointed for life by the Queen
RELIGIONS
Christians 59.5%, Muslims 4.4%, Hindu 1.3%, others 2%, unspecified 7.2%, none 25.7%
From the country
- APRIL 4, 2005North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
UK. BBC AIRS FILM OF NORTH KOREAN PUBLIC EXECUTION
the BBC broadcast footage purportedly showing the public execution of North Koreans caught trying to flee the country. The videotape obtained exclusively by the BBC was reportedly filmed clandestinely in a village near the North's border with China a mont
- MARCH 21, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK. NO PARDON FOR RUTH ELLIS
documents revealed that 50 years after her death, convicted killer Ruth Ellis had been secretly denied a pardon by the British Government.
- MARCH 11, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM. SCOT ON DEATH ROW IN NIGERIA HAS MURDER CONVICTION QUASHED
the family of Scottish businessman Ian Millar, sentenced to death in Nigeria, spoke of their relief after his murder conviction was overturned. Millar, 56, spent a year and a half on death row after being found guilty of killing Anne Marie Gale, his girlf
- MARCH 4, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM. BRITON 'MAY FACE EXECUTION' IF EXTRADITED TO US
Babar Ahmad, a British terrorist suspect, could face the death penalty or imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay if extradited to the US, his lawyers said.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Sister Helen Prejean, the nun who inspired the Hollywood film Dead Man Walking...
Sister Helen Prejean, the nun who inspired the Hollywood film Dead Man Walking...
- FEBRUARY 10, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK. 'LORILEI – A MEDITATION ON LOSS'
after a sell out run in Australia, Reprieve (in association with Theatre Tarquin) will be hosting 'Lorilei – A meditation on loss', a powerful and moving piece of theatre that looks at the subject of the death penalty from the perspective of the victim’s
- FEBRUARY 10, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International UK and UK anti-death penalty organisation Reprieve expressed...
Amnesty International UK and UK anti-death penalty organisation Reprieve expressed...
- JANUARY 1, 2005United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The United Kingdom abolished the death penalty for murder on December 18, 1969
The United Kingdom abolished the death penalty for murder on December 18, 1969
- DECEMBER 18, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
the Prince of Wales was reportedly brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty
the Prince of Wales was reportedly brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty
- DECEMBER 13, 2004ItalyDEATH PENALTY
LONDON. PETER GABRIEL JOINS HOC APPEAL TO UK GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT UN MORATORIUM CAMPAIGN
Hands Off Cain launched its campaign for a worldwide moratorium on executions through a UN resolution in London.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
North Warwickshire MP Mike O'Brien, a former UK Foreign...
North Warwickshire MP Mike O'Brien, a former UK Foreign Office minister, said he intendeded to intervene in the case of convicted drug trafficker Anthony Flanaghan
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British national Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to...
British national Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to death in Thailand