| Alex_The_Hedgehog said: I live in Brazil, and... No. EDIT: Oh, you are brazilian too... Just noticed it. |
We don't have it, but in the constitution there is the possibility to use death penalty during a war as an emergencial measure.
It's a bit off-topic, but I think that it is interesting to say how Brazil stopped using death penalty. During the empire, we had death penalty (hanging). During D. Pedro II reign, a case became very notorious in the media: a rich farmer, Manuel da Mota Coqueiro, that was accused of the murder of his own wife and daughter. In that time, the only way to escape death penalty was through the pardon of the emperor so you could replace it with jail time. While he asked for it, the emperor denied the request and he was executed. Later, his innoncence was proved and that deeply disturbed the emperor.It was 1876.
While a few other people were executed after Manuel, the emperor soon started to give the pardon to everyone condemned to death. In 1889, the constitution created for the proclamation of the republic effectively abolished it.
