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
- AUGUST 28, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The parent of a teenager murdered in 1973 is refusing...
The parent of a teenager murdered in 1973 is refusing to back calls for the return of the death penalty for child killers
- AUGUST 21, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The Express newspaper ran an article demanding that...
The Express newspaper ran an article demanding that there be a Parliamentary debate on the re-introduction of the death penalty
- AUGUST 20, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A national debate on the restoration of the death penalty...
A national debate on the restoration of the death penalty for the most heinous murders was advocated by Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative Home Office minister
- AUGUST 19, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Britain expressed concern to the Nigerian government...
Britain expressed concern to the Nigerian government over the Appeal Court ruling upholding the death sentence by stoning passed on Amina Lawal Kurami, a woman convicted of adultery under the country's Sharia law
- AUGUST 19, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Following the retrieval of the dead bodies of Jessica...
Following the retrieval of the dead bodies of Jessica and Holly Chapman, two ten year old girls who had disappeared earlier on in the month, the Daily Mail newspaper printed an article by Mary Kenny pushing for the re-introduction of the death penalty
- AUGUST 19, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
In an editorial in the Daily Mirror, Tony Parsons that...
In an editorial in the Daily Mirror, Tony Parsons that to deal with the killers of Jessica and Holly Chapman "the answer is obvious - bring back the death penalty
- AUGUST 16, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A man accused of shooting dead and butchering two Mormon...
A man accused of shooting dead and butchering two Mormon missionaries should be extradited to Texas to face murder charges, a London court ruled
- AUGUST 16, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A man accused of shooting dead and butchering two Mormon...
A man accused of shooting dead and butchering two Mormon missionaries should be extradited to Texas to face murder charges, a London court ruled
- JULY 29, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The mother of a man killed by a car bomb in Saudi Arabia...
The mother of a man killed by a car bomb in Saudi Arabia asked for clemency towards the Scottish man convicted of murdering him
- JULY 24, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
In the UK the 74-year-old case of William Knighton,...
In the UK the 74-year-old case of William Knighton, a Derbyshire miner hanged at 22 for cutting his mother's throat at their Ilkeston home, is going to the Court of Appeal
- JULY 24, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Scot who faces execution in Saudi Arabia appealed...
A Scot who faces execution in Saudi Arabia appealed against the sentence, claiming his televised confession was beaten out of him by officials
- JULY 23, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for the five Britons held in connection with...
Lawyers for the five Britons held in connection with anti-western bombings in Saudi Arabia lodged defence submissions with the supreme court in the kingdom