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The Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland introduced a constitutional ban on the death penalty and removed all references to capital punishment from the text. It was effected by the Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2001, which was approved by referendum on 7 June 2001 and signed into law on 27 March 2002. ==Changes to the text== *Insertion of new Article 15.5.2: :The Oireachtas () shall not enact any law providing for the imposition of the death penalty. *Addition to first sentence of Article 28.3.3 (added text in bold): :Nothing in this Constitution other than Article 15.5.2 shall be invoked to invalidate any law enacted by the Oireachtas which is expressed to be for the purpose of securing the public safety and the preservation of the State in time of war or armed rebellion, or to nullify any act done or purporting to be done in time of war or armed rebellion in pursuance of any such law. *Deletion from Article 13.6 (removed text in bold and ruled): :The right of pardon and the power to commute or remit punishment imposed by any court exercising criminal jurisdiction are hereby vested in the President, but such power of commutation or remission may *Deletion of the entirety of Article 40.4.5: :Where an order is made under this section by the High Court or a judge thereof for the production of the body of a person who is under sentence of death, the High Court or such judge thereof shall further order that the execution of the said sentence of death shall be deferred until after the body of such person has been produced before the High Court and the lawfulness of his detention has been determined and if, after such deferment, the detention of such person is determined to be lawful, the High Court shall appoint a day for the execution of the said sentence of death and that sentence shall have effect with the substitution of the day so appointed for the day originally fixed for the execution thereof. *(Article 15.5 accordingly renumbered as Article 15.5.1 and subsections 6 and 7 of Article 40.4 renumbered as subsections 5 and 6 respectively) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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