Hungary
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 · Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following...
- News items in the archive
- 46
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Hungary 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 46 news items on Hungary, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MAY 22, 2002HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Outgoing Hungarian Justice Minister Ibolya David,...
Outgoing Hungarian Justice Minister Ibolya David, referring to the European Union's ban on the death penalty, said that death penalty cannot be a yardstick of democracy under any circumstances
- MAY 22, 2002HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Interior Minister Designate Monika Lamperth is not...
Interior Minister Designate Monika Lamperth is not considering the idea of re-introducing death penalty raised by outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban
- MAY 22, 2002HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Peter Barandy, Justice Minister Designate by the parliament's...
Peter Barandy, Justice Minister Designate by the parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee, said he was against the death penalty and he considered this morning's radio statement by [outgoing Prime Minister] Viktor Orban astoundingly irresponsible
- MAY 22, 2002HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban, shaken...
Hungary's ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban, shaken by the country's bloodiest bank robbery, said he favoured bringing back the death penalty
- MAY 3, 2002HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention...
Hungary signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which ensures the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- JANUARY 1, 2002HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following...
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following a decision by the Constitutional Court
- APRIL 25, 2001HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Hungary was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- JANUARY 1, 2001HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following...
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following a decision by the Constitutional Court
- JUNE 21, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Members of the Kurdistan information and Cultural Office,...
Members of the Kurdistan information and Cultural Office, in Budapest, ended a five day hunger strike
- APRIL 26, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Hungary cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 21, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Anatoly Bykov, Russian business tycoon charged with...
Anatoly Bykov, Russian business tycoon charged with money laundering and extortion, was extradited by the Hungarian Justice Minister, Ibolya David to Moscow after Russia guaranteed he would not be facing the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
In Hungary and the Czech Republic 48% of those interviewed...
In Hungary and the Czech Republic 48% of those interviewed in a recent survey thought capital punishment was not immoral
- JANUARY 1, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following...
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following a decision by the Constitutional Court
- APRIL 28, 1999HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Hungary 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, 1999HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following...
Hungary has been abolitionist since 1990, following a decision by the Constitutional Court