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Lebanon's parliament voted to end capital punishment, making it the first country in the Arab world to do so. Life imprisonment with hard labor now replaces the death sentence.
Lebanon's parliament voted to end capital punishment, making Lebanon the first country in the Arab world to abolish the death penalty. Life imprisonment with hard labor now replaces the death sentence. The vote was a legislative decision, not a court ruling, so it's final.
This is a significant regional shift. Lebanon is a Shia-majority Muslim country, so the move challenges assumptions about religious or cultural inevitability of capital punishment. Other Arab countries are likely watching to see how the policy plays out. If Lebanon's abolition doesn't create the instability some predict, it lowers the political cost for other countries to consider similar reforms.
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