Capital punishment in France

Capital punishment in France - overview of the capital punishment in France. Article “Capital punishment in France” in English Wikipedia has 43.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 10.82 points.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Capital punishment in France” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Capital punishment in France”, its content was written by 163 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 814 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 196 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1440 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19919 in January 2015
• Global: #12878 in January 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #40346 in January 2015
• Global: #19929 in January 2015

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	French (fr) Peine de mort en France		89.1258
2	Chinese (zh) 法国死刑制度		46.4085
3	English (en) Capital punishment in France		43.271
4	German (de) Todesstrafe in Frankreich		37.4583
5	Czech (cs) Trest smrti ve Francii		32.8301
6	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte na França		29.592
7	Finnish (fi) Kuolemanrangaistus Ranskassa		29.5918
8	Italian (it) Pena di morte in Francia		27.4887
9	Japanese (ja) フランスにおける死刑		26.3493
10	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في فرنسا		14.5972

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Capital punishment in France" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Peine de mort en France		4 035 083
2	English (en) Capital punishment in France		1 201 211
3	Italian (it) Pena di morte in Francia		309 804
4	Japanese (ja) フランスにおける死刑		221 136
5	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci we Francji		220 671
6	German (de) Todesstrafe in Frankreich		194 897
7	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Frankrijk		68 684
8	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في فرنسا		46 551
9	Swedish (sv) Dödsstraff i Frankrike		23 477
10	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte na França		17 338

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Capital punishment in France" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Peine de mort en France		6 933
2	English (en) Capital punishment in France		5 625
3	German (de) Todesstrafe in Frankreich		1 160
4	Japanese (ja) フランスにおける死刑		1 004
5	Italian (it) Pena di morte in Francia		903
6	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci we Francji		373
7	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Frankrijk		323
8	Chinese (zh) 法国死刑制度		245
9	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte na França		143
10	Czech (cs) Trest smrti ve Francii		124

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Capital punishment in France" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Peine de mort en France		442
2	English (en) Capital punishment in France		163
3	Italian (it) Pena di morte in Francia		60
4	German (de) Todesstrafe in Frankreich		32
5	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci we Francji		29
6	Japanese (ja) フランスにおける死刑		26
7	Swedish (sv) Dödsstraff i Frankrike		15
8	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في فرنسا		11
9	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Frankrijk		11
10	Catalan (ca) Pena de mort a França		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Capital punishment in France" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capital punishment in France		1
2	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في فرنسا		0
3	Catalan (ca) Pena de mort a França		0
4	Czech (cs) Trest smrti ve Francii		0
5	German (de) Todesstrafe in Frankreich		0
6	Finnish (fi) Kuolemanrangaistus Ranskassa		0
7	French (fr) Peine de mort en France		0
8	Italian (it) Pena di morte in Francia		0
9	Japanese (ja) フランスにおける死刑		0
10	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Frankrijk		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Capital punishment in France" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Peine de mort en France		459
2	Japanese (ja) フランスにおける死刑		241
3	English (en) Capital punishment in France		196
4	German (de) Todesstrafe in Frankreich		149
5	Czech (cs) Trest smrti ve Francii		115
6	Chinese (zh) 法国死刑制度		91
7	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في فرنسا		69
8	Italian (it) Pena di morte in Francia		35
9	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Frankrijk		32
10	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte na França		23

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عقوبة الإعدام في فرنسا
ca	Catalan Pena de mort a França
cs	Czech Trest smrti ve Francii
de	German Todesstrafe in Frankreich
en	English Capital punishment in France
fi	Finnish Kuolemanrangaistus Ranskassa
fr	French Peine de mort en France
it	Italian Pena di morte in Francia
ja	Japanese フランスにおける死刑
nl	Dutch Doodstraf in Frankrijk
pl	Polish Kara śmierci we Francji
pt	Portuguese Pena de morte na França
sv	Swedish Dödsstraff i Frankrike
zh	Chinese 法国死刑制度

Best Rank

English: #40346 01.2015

Global: #19929 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #19919 01.2015

Global: #12878 01.2015

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