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Lebanon ends executions: Where does the death penalty still exist in 2026?

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 310 words · By AJLabs
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What to know about Lebanon ends executions: Where does the death penalty still exist in 2026?

Al Jazeera reports: Lebanon ends executions: Where does the death penalty still exist in 2026?.

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What happened

Al Jazeera reports: Lebanon ends executions: Where does the death penalty still exist in 2026?.

Why it matters

Three-quarters of the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, according to Amnesty International.

Common ground

Lebanon has become the first country in the Middle East to abolish the death penalty.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Lebanon has become the first country in the Middle East to abolish the death penalty.”
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Al Jazeera reports that Lebanon's parliament passed a law to abolish capital punishment, making it the first country in the Middle East to do so.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christianity has a long and continuous history in Lebanon. Biblical scriptures show that Peter and Paul evangelized the Phoenicians, leading to the dawn of the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch. As such…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Lebanon
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 16 March 2026, Israel began a ground invasion in Lebanon, as part of the 2026 Lebanon war, Hezbollah–Israel conflict, and broader Middle Eastern crisis. While Israel had already been occupying some…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_Southern…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christians (Arabic: المسيحية الأرثوذكسية الرومية في لبنان) are Lebanese people who follow the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch in Lebanon, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Churc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Greek_Orthodox_Christ…
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Claim 2: “Executions were carried out in 17 countries”
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Claim 3: “Retention: 54 countries”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the number of retentionist countries.
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Claim 4: “Abolition for ordinary crimes only: nine countries”
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The search results for 'nine' returned general information about the number 9, movies, and a website, but no data regarding countries that abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine is a 2009 romantic musical drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, loosely based on the musical of the same name, which in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_(2009_live-action_film)
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web search NEUTRAL — Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
https://www.nine.com.au/
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine is strongly associated with the Chinese dragon, a symbol of magic and power. There are nine forms of the dragon, it is described in terms of nine attributes, and it has nine children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9
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Claim 5: “At the end of 2025, 85 people were facing death sentences, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Justice’s Directorate of Prisons.”
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Only Al Jazeera reports the specific figure of 85 people facing death sentences at the end of 2025 according to the Lebanese Ministry of Justice.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — General elections in Lebanon are scheduled for 2028 to elect all 128 members of the Lebanese Parliament. The elections were originally scheduled for May 2026, but were postponed by Parliament for two …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Lebanese_general_election
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, with Israel invading parts of Lebanon. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezboll…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 23 September 2024, Israel began a series of airstrikes in Lebanon as part of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict with an operation it code-named Northern Arrows. Since then, Israel's attacks have…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Israeli_attacks…
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Claim 6: “Lebanon has observed an unofficial moratorium on executions since January 2004”
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The provided evidence for this claim discusses attacks in 2025 and a newspaper in Oregon, but does not mention a moratorium on executions since January 2004.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On the morning of January 26, 2025, unarmed displaced Lebanese civilians from southern villages, returned home from the north after Israel Defense Forces refused to leave the occupied areas in souther…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2025_southern_Lebanon_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lebanon Express was a weekly newspaper in Lebanon, Oregon. It was owned by Lee Enterprises. The paper ceased publication in January 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Express
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Claim 7: “Three-quarters of the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, according to Amnesty International.”
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Al Jazeera and other web results explicitly state that according to Amnesty International, close to three-quarters of the world's countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Criticism of Amnesty International includes claims of selection bias, as well as ideology and foreign policy biases. Various governments criticised by Amnesty International have in turn criticised th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amnesty (I) (also titled Amnesty I and sometimes referred to as Amnesty) is the fourth and final studio album by Canadian electronic music duo Crystal Castles, released on August 19, 2016, by Fiction …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_(I)
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Claim 8: “Death sentences will be replaced with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.”
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Both Al Jazeera and France24 independently report that death sentences are replaced with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The new system replaces the death sentence with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/11/lebanons-parliament…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — replacing the sentencing with life imprisonment plus aggravated hard labour
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260811-lebanon-bec…
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Claim 9: “Amnesty attributed that spike primarily to executions in Iran, which more than doubled from 972 in 2024 to at least 2,159 in 2025.”
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Claim 10: “Amnesty International’s monitoring of worldwide use of the death penalty recorded 2,707 executions in 2025, up 78 percent from 1,518 in 2024.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 11: “On Tuesday, a majority of the 128-member parliament voted in favour of scrapping capital punishment.”
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Multiple independent sources (RFI, Xinhua/NNA) confirm that a majority of Lebanon's 128-member parliament voted to abolish the death penalty on a Tuesday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lebanon national football team (Arabic: منتخب لبنان لكرة القدم), controlled by the Lebanese Football Association (LFA), represents Lebanon in men's international association football. Founded in 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_national_football_team
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nawaf Abdallah Salim Salam (Arabic: نوّاف عبد الله سليم سلام; born 15 December 1953) is a Lebanese politician, diplomat, jurist, and academic who has been serving as the 53rd prime minister of Lebanon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaf_Salam
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Claim 12: “Abolition in practice: 23 countries”
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Simple English Wikipedia explicitly states that there are 23 'Abolitionist-in-practice' countries.
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web search NEUTRAL — 23 had the death penalty, but had not used it for 10 years. How many people are executed every year?The death penalty is not used at all in 112 countries, compared with 48 in 1991. Six countries aboli…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45835584
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web search NEUTRAL — Maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.The countries in Africa that most recently abolished the death penalty are Zambia (2023), Central African Republic (2022), and Sierra Leone (2021).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country
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web search NEUTRAL — Abolitionist countries (have banned the death penalty): 110.Abolitionist-in-practice countries (have executed nobody during the last 10 years or more and have an established practice of not carrying o…
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty
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Claim 13: “Abolition for all crimes: 113 countries”
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Deutsche Welle and other web search results independently confirm that 113 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes.
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web search NEUTRAL — When abolishing the death penalty, Xuanzong ordered his officials to refer to the nearest regulation by analogy when sentencing those found guilty of crimes for which the prescribed punishment was exe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
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web search NEUTRAL — As of today, 113 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and close to three quarters are abolitionist in law or practice.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/malaysia-death-pen…
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web search NEUTRAL — It highlights the progress gained by advocates for abolition: fewer countries are carrying out executions and retentionist countries are increasingly isolated. Today, 113 countries have abolished the …
https://www.pgaction.org/news/world-day-against-the-death-pe…
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