2015 Event Pakistan reinstates the death penalty for all crimes, extending a previous reinstatement only for terrorism cases; the country has had a moratorium on capital punishment since 2008 but lifted it after terrorist attacks in December 2014 2010 Event The last death row inmate in Cuba has his death sentence commuted; the nation is against capital punishment and has commuted many death sentences since 2008 1987 Death Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies 1974 Death Harry Baum, actor (Crime and Punishment), dies at 58 1921 Event Sweden abolished capital punishment 1881 Death Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59 1870 Event Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) 1870 Event Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment 1854 Event Netherlands allows corporal punishment 1850 Event U.S. Navy abolishes flogging as punishment 1847 Event Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment 1821 Birthday Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist, Crime and Punishment
