Capital punishment in Germany

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 Germany has been abolished for all crimes, and is now explicitly prohibited by the constitution. It was abolished in West Germany in 1949, in the Saarland in 1956 (as part of the Saarland joining West Germany and becoming a state of West Germany), and East Germany in 1987. The last person executed in Germany was the East German Werner Teske, who was executed at Leipzig Prison in 1981.