The Cook Islands took the final step and abolished the death penalty late last year. They are now listed as abolitionist on the Amnesty International database. The Cooks had never executed anyone since self-government, but their law (based on the NZ Crimes Act 1961) retained the death penalty for treason. Now it has finally been abolished.
Four more countries and we'll have a legally (rather than just in practice) death-penalty free South Pacific.
