Germany
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 Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949)...
- News items in the archive
- 121
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Germany 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 121 news items on Germany, from 1999 to today.