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Europe holds the greatest concentration of abolitionist states (blue). Map current as of 2022.

  Abolished for all offences

  Abolished in practice

  Retains capital punishment

Capital punishment in modern Greece was carried out using the guillotine (until 1913) or by firing squad. It was last applied in 1972 during the military junta. The death penalty was abolished in stages between 1975 and 2005.