Malta
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 death penalty is still provided for under the Constitution...
- News items in the archive
- 36
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Malta 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 36 news items on Malta, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- APRIL 26, 2000MaltaDEATH PENALTY
Malta cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Malta cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 21, 2000MaltaDEATH PENALTY
The Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2000 was promulgated...
The Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2000 was promulgated following approval of the Act by the House of Representatives and President Guido de Marco, allowing Malta to abolish the death penalty for all crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2000MaltaDEATH PENALTY
Although the death penalty had been abolished in 1971...
Although the death penalty had been abolished in 1971 for ordinary crimes in the Criminal Code, it had been retained under the Armed Forces Act of 1970 for certain offences committed in time of war, such as aiding the enemy, desertion and taking part in a
- APRIL 27, 1999MaltaDEATH PENALTY
Malta was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Malta was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- MARCH 1, 1999MaltaDEATH PENALTY
In March, the extradition of Mohammed Abdel Monem Abbas,...
In March, the extradition of Mohammed Abdel Monem Abbas, 26, who was arrested in Malta in 1998 following an Interpol request, was requested by Turkey, so that he could face charges of murdering Briton Edgar Fernandes, 37, a London librarian who had been o
- JANUARY 1, 1999MaltaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is still provided for under the Constitution...
The death penalty is still provided for under the Constitution but is only applicable under the Army Forces of Malta Act 1970 for aiding the enemy, communication with the enemy and injurious disclosures, mutiny and insubordination, and failure to suppress