Greece
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 of Greece (1975) at Art
- News items in the archive
- 50
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Greece 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 Greece, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MAY 27, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
US national Peter Sedom, 32,who was serving multiple...
US national Peter Sedom, 32,who was serving multiple sentences, including a life-sentence for intentional homicide, excaped from Korydallos prison
- MAY 3, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greece signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention...
Greece signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which ensures the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- APRIL 24, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The General Secretariat for Equality asked that Greece...
The General Secretariat for Equality asked that Greece officially intervene in the case of a Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning on charges of adultery by a Muslim sharia court in Nigeria
- JANUARY 12, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria's embassy in Athens told a protest delegation...
Nigeria's embassy in Athens told a protest delegation that a Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning in the African country would be spared, Soula Panaretou, a member of the Coalition of the Left and Progress, said
- JANUARY 12, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other...
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other MEPs wrote to the Nigerian Ambassador to the EU, Mr Akunwafor, demanding that the execution of Safiya Husaini Tungar-Tudu by stoning, for having committed adultery, is not carried out
- JANUARY 1, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greece passed a law in 1993 which abolished the death...
Greece passed a law in 1993 which abolished the death penalty as a punishment applicable to offences defined in the Greek Penal Code
- MAY 15, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis met...
The Parliamentary Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis met the head of the French delegation of the OSCE assembly, Michel Voisin, in Athens
- APRIL 25, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greece was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Greece was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- APRIL 6, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Parliament ratified the amendment to the Constitution...
The Parliament ratified the amendment to the Constitution proposing the abolition of the death penalty, even in the case of those convicted of crimes committed during the seven year dictatorship (1967-1974)
- JANUARY 31, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Greek Parliament effectively abolished the death...
The Greek Parliament effectively abolished the death sentence in peace time
- JANUARY 1, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Greece at Art
The Constitution of Greece at Art
- APRIL 26, 2000GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greece cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Greece cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 22, 2000GreeceDEATH PENALTY
A small group of Amnesty International activists protested...
A small group of Amnesty International activists protested against China's human rights record and use of the death penalty while Chinese President Jiang Zemin toured the Athens Acropolis
- JANUARY 20, 2000GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Following a landmark trip to Turkey, George Papandreou,...
Following a landmark trip to Turkey, George Papandreou, the Greek Foreign Minister, said Greece would not tolerate terrorism, and said "human rights, protection of minorities, and capital punishment are important for us
- JANUARY 13, 2000GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The government welcomed Turkey's decision to postpone...
The government welcomed Turkey's decision to postpone the hanging of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK( the Kurdistan Workers' Party)
- JANUARY 1, 2000GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Greece (1975) at Art
The Constitution of Greece (1975) at Art
- APRIL 28, 1999GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greece was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Greece was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 28, 1999GreeceDEATH PENALTY
On 28 January, a prosecutor in the northern Greek city...
On 28 January, a prosecutor in the northern Greek city of Kavala charged Georgos Skiadopoulos, 23, a Greek sailor, with murdering Julie Scully, 30, a model from Mansfield, New Jersey, cutting off her head and deceiving the police by declaring her missing
- JANUARY 1, 1999GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Greece (1975) at Art
The Constitution of Greece (1975) at Art
- JANUARY 1, 1999GreeceDEATH PENALTY
In 1989, Syrian refugee Mohamed Doguz served a prison...
In 1989, Syrian refugee Mohamed Doguz served a prison sentence in Greece for drug abuse, and was granted the status of political refugee that same year