Czechia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (1992) at Art
- News items in the archive
- 60
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Czechia is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 60 news items on Czechia, from 1999 to today.
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JULY 19, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Czech Republic will extradite a Georgian national over a plot to kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad
APRIL 15, 2020TaiwanDEATH PENALTYCZECH REPUBLIC: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT BARS EXTRADITION OF 8 TAIWANESE TO CHINA
The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic on 9 April 2020 ruled that eight Taiwanese charged with being involved in cross-border telecom fraud cannot be extradited to the People’s Republic of China.
- JANUARY 1, 2020CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2019CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2018CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2017CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2016CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2015CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2014CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2013CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2012CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2011CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2010CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JULY 22, 2009CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
CZECHS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY
62 per cent of people in the Czech Republic support the death penalty, according to a poll by CVVM
- APRIL 20, 2009CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
the US and EU Justice and Internal Ministers met in Prague...
the US and EU Justice and Internal Ministers met in Prague, the Czech Republic, where they signed an Extradition Accord on reciprocal justice.
- JANUARY 1, 2009CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2008CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
the Czech Republic voted in favour of the Resolution...
the Czech Republic voted in favour of the Resolution...
- JANUARY 1, 2007CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- JANUARY 1, 2006CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2005CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
CZECH REPUBLIC. MOST CZECHS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT – POLL
57 percent of Czechs want capital punishment to exist in the Czech Republic
- MAY 2, 2005CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
CZECH REPUBLIC. TWO-THIRDS OF CZECHS IN FAVOUR OF DEATH PENALTY
two-thirds of Czechs believed that the death penalty should be brought back and re-instated while less than a quarter said that it should not, according to a poll released by the CVVM agency.
- APRIL 20, 2005CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech Republic was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Czech Republic was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- JANUARY 1, 2005CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- APRIL 21, 2004CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech Republic was a cosponsor of the resolution on...
Czech Republic was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 7, 2004CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
The Czech Republic abolished the death penalty in 1990.
- MARCH 16, 2004CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel condemned China...
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel condemned China for its threat to execute a Tibetan monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
- APRIL 24, 2003CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech Republic was a cosponsor of the resolution on...
Czech Republic was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 11, 2003CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of...
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of Czechs believe that the Czech Republic should reinstate the death penalty and one-third believe that all murderers should receive it
- JANUARY 1, 2003CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic has signed but not yet ratified...
The Czech Republic has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms banning the death penalty in all circumstances