Lebanon’s parliament votes to abolish death penalty
Lebanon’s parliament voted on August 11, 2026, to end capital punishment and replace death sentences with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.
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- Lebanon’s parliament voted on August 11, 2026, to end capital punishment and replace death sentences with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.
Lebanon’s parliament voted on August 11, 2026, to abolish the death penalty, Al Jazeera reported.
Under the measure described in the report, death sentences will be replaced by life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.
Al Jazeera reported that the vote would make Lebanon the first country in the Middle East to abolish capital punishment. The parliamentary action marks a major change in the country’s criminal-justice policy.
