Status: partly abolitionist

Legal Framework

The death penalty has been abolished for crimes committed in peacetime. However, the Criminal Code envisages the death penalty for murder with aggravating circumstances if committed during wartime.(Art. 37 of the Criminal Code, 1998, as amended 2000. This article also provides that the death penalty may not be applied to individuals below the age of 18 at the time of the crime, or to women) Draft laws on ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and Protocol No. 13 to the ECHR were submitted to Parliament on 21 February 2002 and 17 October 2002, respectively. During the reporting period, no steps were taken to fully remove the death penalty from national legislation.

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Status: partly abolitionist

Legal Framework

The death penalty has been abolished for crimes committed in peacetime. However, the Criminal Code envisages the death penalty for murder with aggravating circumstances if committed during wartime.(Art. 37 of the Criminal Code, 1998, as amended 2000. This article also provides that the death penalty may not be applied to individuals below the age of 18 at the time of the crime, or to women) Draft laws on ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and Protocol No. 13 to the ECHR were submitted to Parliament on 21 February 2002 and 17 October 2002, respectively. During the reporting period, no steps were taken to fully remove the death penalty from national legislation.

Statistics

Death sentences

None

Executions

None

Relevant International Instruments

Updated: 2007

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