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
- 50
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 50 news items on Czechia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MAY 3, 2002CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech Republic signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention...
Czech Republic signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which ensures the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- APRIL 25, 2002CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech Republic was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution...
Czech Republic was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- DECEMBER 14, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
A Czech court set free Muhammad Salih the exiled leader...
A Czech court set free Muhammad Salih the exiled leader of one of Uzbekistan's main opposition parties, saying he should not be extradited to the former Soviet republic, where he faces a long prison sentence
- DECEMBER 12, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech state attorney proposed to the Prague Municipal...
The Czech state attorney proposed to the Prague Municipal Court to decide against the extradition of Uzbek dissident Mohammed Solih to Uzbekistan
- OCTOBER 8, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The USA should not have attacked Afghanistan because...
The USA should not have attacked Afghanistan because the Taliban could have handed the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation leader Osama bin Laden to an Afghan or international court, Munib Hasan, chairman of the Islamic Foundation in Brno, said
- APRIL 25, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic was a cosponsor and voted in favour...
The Czech Republic was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- MARCH 31, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
About 75 members of the far-right Republican Youth,...
About 75 members of the far-right Republican Youth, National Front and the National United Bloc took part in a demonstration against drugs
- MARCH 15, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The number of supporters of capital punishment in the...
The number of supporters of capital punishment in the Czech Republic is decreasing, this year it reached 59 percent, which is the lowest figure since 1992
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Freedom Union Deputy chairman Vladimir Mlynar believes...
The Freedom Union Deputy chairman Vladimir Mlynar believes that Europe might resume a discussion on the introduction of the death sentence in the future and that the Czech Republic should take part in it
- NOVEMBER 6, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
It is dangerous to pull out the card of the reintroduction...
It is dangerous to pull out the card of the reintroduction of the death penalty more than ten years after the capital punishment was abolished by the then Czechoslovak parliament, Zemske Noviny (ZN) member Josef Petru wrote in the daily newspaper Pravo
- NOVEMBER 5, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
In a televised debate Prime Minister Milos Zeman (Czech...
In a televised debate Prime Minister Milos Zeman (Czech Social Democratic Party) said he was against the death penalty being re-established in the Czech Republic to handle the most serious cases
- JUNE 24, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party...
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party organised a demonstration against the legalisation of drugs
- JUNE 17, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation...
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Crimes (UDV) said in its report Performed Capital Punishments in Czechoslovakia in 1918-1989 that Czechoslovak courts sentenced to death 1,207 people between 1918 and 1989 when the capital punishment w
- MAY 12, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech anarchists were to hold demonstrations in Prague...
Czech anarchists were to hold demonstrations in Prague and in the Moravian capital Brno to protest against the planned execution in the US of African-American activist and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted of murdering a police officer
- APRIL 26, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech republic cosponsored and voted in favour of the...
Czech republic cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced...
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced while 26 percent disagree with it, according to a poll conducted by the IVVM polling agency
- JANUARY 1, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Official statistics show that in recent years, the...
Official statistics show that in recent years, the number of criminal cases in the Czech Republic stood at about 400,000 each year, almost double that before 1990
- JANUARY 1, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
A total of 1,207 people, including 75 women, were executed...
A total of 1,207 people, including 75 women, were executed under the death sentence in former Czechoslovakia from 1918 to July 1990, when the death sentence was abolished
- APRIL 28, 1999CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic was a cosponsor and voted in favor...
The Czech Republic was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (1992) at Art
The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (1992) at Art