Capital punishment in Lithuania

Europe holds the greatest concentration of abolitionist states (blue). Map current as of 2022
  Abolished for all offences
  Abolished in practice
  Retains capital punishment
Lithuania on the map of Europe

Capital punishment in Lithuania was ruled unconstitutional and abolished for all crimes on 9 December 1998.[1] Lithuania is a member of the Council of Europe and has signed and ratified Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights on complete abolition of death penalty.[2] From March 1990 to December 1998, Lithuania executed seven people, all men. The last execution in the country occurred in July 1995, when Lithuanian mafia boss Boris Dekanidze was executed.

  1. ^ Ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania on the compliance of the death penalty provided for by the sanction of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania
  2. ^ Chart of signatures and ratifications of Treaty 187