It'll be lonely this Christmas! The faces of the Brits on death row this festive season in hell-hole foreign jails contemplating execution by hanging, lethal injection and firing squad
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Three British citizens will rot on death row in some of the world's worst jails this Christmas contemplating their upcoming executions by hanging, lethal injection and firing squad. The three women who may share the same grisly fate have been convicted of heinous offences including murder and drug smuggling and have all appealed their sentences with no success.
![[The 67-year-old may have her sentence converted into a whole life term instead due to a law change being introduced in January, due to good behaviour behind bars]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/00/82533023-13203683-image-a-10_1710549783115.jpg)
The death penalty has long been outlawed in the UK with the last British woman to be executed being Ruth Ellis in 1955 who was hanged for shooting her lover outside a pub in North London. Nearly three-quarters of all countries had abolished capital punishment in law or in practice by the end of 2023.
![[This picture taken in November 2012 shows a female detainee at Kerobokan prison]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/00/82533019-13203683-image-a-11_1710549785447.jpg)
A total of 112 have abolished it for all crimes, nine others have abolished it for ordinary crimes and a further 23 are considered de-facto abolitionists because they have not executed anyone in a decade. The only country on the European continent to still apply the death penalty is the former Soviet republic of Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia.
![[Lindsay Sandiford, is to be executed by a firing squad after she was caught in 2012]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/00/10105618-13203683-Lindsay_Sandiford_is_to_be_executed_by_a_firing_squad_after_she_-a-12_1710549873160.jpg)
However, there are many countries around the world, including the US, India and Indonesia that still regularly carry out the death penalty for serious crimes. Today both East and West deploy techniques that involve shock, injury and gas - in some cases leaving the condemned person to suffer for more than half an hour before dropping dead.
![[Now grey-haired and suffering arthritis, Sandiford spends her days knitting in the cramped five metres-by-five-metres cell she shares with four other women prisoners]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/00/10102214-13203683-Now_grey_haired_and_suffering_arthritis_Sandiford_spends_her_day-a-13_1710549883381.jpg)
Ahead of their executions, MailOnline revisits the cases of the three British women who are currently condemned to die this Christmas. Lindsay Sandiford has been imprisoned since 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.6 million cocaine into Indonesia in her suitcase.
![[Barbed wire fences encircle the Kerobokan jail in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/16/00/69860581-13203683-Barbed_wire_fences_encircle_the_Kerobokan_jail_in_Denpasar_on_In-a-14_1710549888509.jpg)
