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The 1998 Constitution of Sudan, at Part II on Freedoms,...

The 1998 Constitution of Sudan, at Part II on Freedoms, Rights and Responsibilities, makes provision for the death penalty

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The 1998 Constitution of Sudan, at Part II on Freedoms, Rights and Responsibilities, makes provision for the death penalty. Article 33 states: "1.
The death penalty may not be imposed except as chastisement or punishment for the most serious very serious crimes in accordance with law" and "2. A sentence of death shall not be imposed by crimes committed by persons below eighteen years-of-age and shall not be carried out on pregnant or lactating women, except two years after the birth, or on those above the age of seventy except when they have committed crimes of qisas or hadud."
In accordance with Shari'a, the provides for physical punishments including flogging, amputation, stonings, and crucifixion--the public display of a body after execution.
Under article 146 of Sudan 's 1991 Penal Code, "Whoever commits the offence of adultery shall be punished with:
a) execution by stoning when the offender is married (muhsan);
b) One hundred lashes of the whip when the offender is not married (non-muhsan);
c) The male non-married offender may be punished, in addition to whipping, with expatriation for one year".
Article 171 of the penal code states that whoever commits theft (alsargha alhadiyha), may be sentenced with amputation of the right hand if the value of the stolen items is equal to or more than the value of 4.25 grams of gold (equivalent to £204 pounds sterling).