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Capital punishment is a legal penalty for numerous offences inSyria. The Syrian government holds a retentionist view of capital punishment.[1] Current laws allow the death penalty fortreason;espionage;murder;arson resulting in death; attempting a death-eligible crime; recidivism for a felony punishable by forced labor for life; political acts and military offences such as bearing arms against Syria in the ranks of the enemy,desertion of the armed forces to the enemy,insubordination, acts of incitement under martial law or in wartime; violentrobbery;terrorism; subjecting a person totorture or barbaric treatment during the commission of gang-robbery;rape; membership in theMuslim Brotherhood; joining theIslamic State;drug trafficking of narcotics;political dissidence andfalsification of material evidence resulting in a third party being convicted for a drug offense and sentenced to death.[2]
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