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 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal...
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal for Tony Blair to bow to US demands for Iraqi prisoners of war captured by British forces to be handed over to the US for trial or imprisonment in the United States
- APRIL 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed that Britain...
British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed that Britain would not send people to the US under a new extradition treaty if there was a possibility they could face the death penalty
- MARCH 25, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind...
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind the Sikh community by writing to Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam urging him to take Davinder Pal Singh Bhuller off death row
- MARCH 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A State of the Region survey conducted by the Journal...
A State of the Region survey conducted by the Journal showed that 65 per cent of people in the North-East believed that the only way of claiming justice for murdered children was by implementing the death penalty
- MARCH 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Newcastle Law School lecturer James Sweeney argued...
Newcastle Law School lecturer James Sweeney argued that capital punishment doesn't act as a deterrent in preventing crimes
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The parents of a young English teacher stabbed to death...
The parents of a young English teacher stabbed to death in Thailand made a plea for the woman accused of his murder not to face the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 23, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Ms Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP called for mercy to be...
Ms Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP called for mercy to be shown to a Nigerian woman facing death by stoning for adultery
- FEBRUARY 13, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British MP and Minister for Europe Denis MacShane revealed...
British MP and Minister for Europe Denis MacShane revealed that two Iraqi doctors living in the UK fled their homeland after being ordered by Saddam Hussein to help commit atrocities against his own people
- FEBRUARY 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Bill Rammell, Foreign Office Minister with responsibility...
Bill Rammell, Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for human rights policy, met members of the Foreign Secretary's Death Penalty Panel to discuss how the UK can promote abolition of the death penalty in Africa
- FEBRUARY 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Baroness Sarah Ludford asked the President of Parliament...
Baroness Sarah Ludford asked the President of Parliament to write to the Governor of Texas and President Bush following the execution of Jackie Elliott
- FEBRUARY 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers and supporters of Jackie Elliott, a UK national...
Lawyers and supporters of Jackie Elliott, a UK national convicted of a murder in Texas in 1986, reacted furiously to his execution, saying the US legal system had refused even to look at compelling evidence pointing to his innocence or to allow more time
- FEBRUARY 4, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International UK campaigners held a vigil at...
Amnesty International UK campaigners held a vigil at London's Westminster Abbey for British born Jackie Elliott, due to be executed in Texas, USA, for a murder committed in 1986