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
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari
Accused of spying for Great Britain
NOVEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran tried to assassinate British residents 10 times this year
MI5 reveals
- MARCH 21, 2022United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
SCOTLAND: GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZES FOR WOMEN KILLED FOR WITCHCRAFT
Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon on 8 March 2022 in Edinburgh issued an official government pardon for thousands of women convicted of witchcraft in XVI and XVII Centuries and were killed “simply because they were women.
MARCH 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri Freed
- JUNE 8, 2021Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM: FOREIGN SECRETARY URGED TO INTERVENE IN SAUDI ARABIA DEATH PENALTY CASES
The relatives of two men awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia on 7 June 2021 asked British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to press for their release while he visits the kingdom.
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - New trial for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Charges of “propaganda against the system”
- MARCH 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran frees British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Her British passport has not been returned to her
- NOVEMBER 17, 2020United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK - Professor Roger Hood, one of the founders of the international movement for the abolition of the death penalty, passed away.
UK - Professor Roger Hood, one of the founders of the international movement for the abolition of the death penalty, passed away.
OCTOBER 7, 2020United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Islamic State 'Beatles' in court over US hostages' deaths.
USA - Islamic State 'Beatles' in court over US hostages' deaths.
- APRIL 8, 2020United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY PROJECT PUBLISHES LATEST REPORT ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE CARIBBEAN
“The Death Penalty Project” on 7 April 2020 published its latest report: “Sentenced to Death Without Execution: Why capital punishment has not yet been abolished in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados” by Professor Roger Hood and Dr Florence Seemungal with
- MARCH 25, 2020United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK - USA. United Kingdom Supreme Court Rules Britain Cannot Provide Evidence to U.S. for Use in Death-Penalty Cases.
UK - USA. United Kingdom Supreme Court Rules Britain Cannot Provide Evidence to U.S. for Use in Death-Penalty Cases.
- JANUARY 1, 2020United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The United Kingdom abolished the death penalty for murder on December 18...
The United Kingdom abolished the death penalty for murder on December 18...