Finland
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 Constitution Act of Finland (1919 as amended in...
- News items in the archive
- 37
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Finland 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 37 news items on Finland, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- NOVEMBER 29, 2000FinlandDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said he wanted to enhance...
Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said he wanted to enhance the role of human rights in the Finnish foreign policy on presenting a new report on the government's human rights policy to the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee
- MARCH 27, 2000FinlandDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja said that the use of the death penalty was a serious human rights problem, which jeopardized, interalia, the right to life and the right to freedom from
- JANUARY 1, 2000FinlandDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution Act of Finland (1919 as amended in...
The Constitution Act of Finland (1919 as amended in 1995), Section 6, states in part: "Everyone shall have the right to life and personal liberty, physical integrity and security of person
- NOVEMBER 9, 1999FinlandDEATH PENALTY
On November 9, Ambassador Marjatta Rasi, speaking at...
On November 9, Ambassador Marjatta Rasi, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly on items 116 b), c) and e) on the issue of the abolition of the death penalty, said, "Where the death penalty still exists, the European Union calls, as a fir
- NOVEMBER 2, 1999FinlandDEATH PENALTY
On November 2, Ann Marie Nyroos, speaking at the Third...
On November 2, Ann Marie Nyroos, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), said the EU is convinced that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and t
- APRIL 28, 1999FinlandDEATH PENALTY
Finland was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Finland was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999FinlandDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution Act of Finland (1919 as amended in...
The Constitution Act of Finland (1919 as amended in 1995), Section 6, states in part: "Everyone shall have the right to life and personal liberty, physical integrity and security of person