Citizens of the German state of Hesse have finally voted to scrap the death penalty from its Constitution, phasing out a 69-year-old legal anomaly that had allowed it. Eighty-three percent of voters voted to abolish capital punishment seven decades after the German federal Constitution abolished it. The vote was symbolic since federal law always trumps state law in Germany. Two people were sentenced to death between 1946 and 1949 in the state, but both rulings were later changed to life sentences.
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German State Scraps Outdated Death Penalty Law
Citizens of the German state of Hesse have finally voted to scrap the death penalty from its Constitution, phasing out a 69-year-old legal anomaly that had allowed it. Eighty-three percent of voters voted to abolish...
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