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Capital punishment for homosexuality
Death penalty for same-sex sexual activity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history. It is a legal punishment in several countries and regions, all of which have sharia-based criminal laws, except for Uganda.
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Law explicitly provides for death penalty for sex between consenting adults of the same sex
Law is unclear if death penalty is a legally possible punishment for same-sex acts, although such acts are criminalized[1][lower-alpha 1]
Gay people also face extrajudicial killings by state and non-state actors in some states and regions of the world. Locations where this is known to occur include Iraq, Libya, Syria and the Chechnya region of Russia. Imposition of the death penalty for homosexuality may be classified as judicial murder of gay people.