(Australian Institute of Criminology report in crime and criminal justice 1993) Queensland was one of the first jurisdictions anywhere to abolish the death penalty in 1922, and Western Australia is generally regarded as the last State to abolish capital punishment in Australia (in 1984), New South Wales did in fact retain some residual offences relating to piracy and treason, which continued to carry the death penalty. ... Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act, 1973.( Australian Institute of Criminology report in crime and ...

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According to the Institute of Criminology, Queensland was the first state to abolish capital punishment in Australia, in 1922, followed by New South Wales in 1955, Tasmania in 1968, ACT in 1973, Northern Territory in 1973, Victoria in 1975, South Australia in 1976 and finally Western Australia in 1984. ...

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