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No country imposes death penalty for immodest dress

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“No country on earth gives the death penalty for dressing immodestly”
False
Confidence: High Checked on October 20, 2026

Summary

Iran has enacted morality laws under which women can be sentenced to death or long imprisonment for violating dress codes, demonstrating that at least one country imposes the death penalty for immodest dressing.

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judiciariesworldwide.fjc.gov
  • Death Penalty | Judiciaries Worldwide - Federal Judicial Center |

    Based on 2021 data from the Death Penalty Information Center, 141 countries have abolished capital punishment in some capacity (i.e. totally, for ordinary crimes, or in practice), and 55 countries permit capital punishment. Current data also shows that there were 579 executions carried out in 2021 by 18 countries.

ojp.gov
  • Wrongful deaths | Office of Justice Programs

    An official website of the United States government, Department of Justice · Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States

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dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu
  • Statuses of the death penalty7/30

    Sources: Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide Database, Amnesty International annual reports on Death Sentences and Executions · Countries and territories that retain and partly still ... ++ Gambia ratified OPT2 in September 2018. Under international law, it is therefore barred from applying

scholarship.law.duke.edu
  • Eliminating Discrimination in Administering the Death Penalty

    Duke Law > Duke Law Scholarship Repository · Duke Law School has been long known for its leadership in electronic publication of legal scholarship and active promotion of open access to legal information. In 1998, Duke Law began making the full text of its student-edited print journals freely ...

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en.wikipedia.org
  • Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

    Seven states have imposed moratoria, and four others are classifiable as "abolitionists-in-practice" according to the United Nations criteria, having passed a period of over ten years without executions. Outside of the United States, the last execution elsewhere in the Americas was in Saint Kitts and Nevis in 2008. The countries in the Americas that most recently abolished the death penalty ...

  • Clothing laws by country - Wikipedia

    In some countries, non-sexual toplessness or nudity is legal. However, private or public establishments can establish a dress code which requires visitors to wear prescribed clothing.

ar.wikipedia.org
  • عقوبة الإعدام حسب الدولة - ويكيبيديا

    فيما يلي ملخص استخدام عقوبة الإعدام حسب الدولة. من الناحية التاريخية، استخدمت عقوبة الإعدام في كل جزء تقريبا من العالم. وفي الوقت الراهن، ألغت الغالبية العظمى من ...

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