Moldova
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 · Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995...
- News items in the archive
- 43
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Moldova 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 43 news items on Moldova, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2020MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2019MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2018MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2017MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2016MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2015MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2014MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2013MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2012MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2011MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2010MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2009MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- JANUARY 1, 2008MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Moldova voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- JANUARY 1, 2007MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- AUGUST 2, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. PRESIDENT ENDORSES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Moldova's president put his stamp of approval on a package of bills abolishing the death penalty in the former Soviet republic.
- JULY 29, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. MOLDOVA RATIFIES CONVENTIONS OUTLAWING DEATH PENALTY
Moldova assumed an international obligation not to apply the death penalty.
- JULY 17, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. EU WELCOMES COMPLETE ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY IN MOLDOVA
the European Union issued the following common foreign and security policy statement:
- JUNE 29, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. PARLIAMENT EXLUDES DEATH PENALTY FROM CONSTITUTION
Moldova's parliament unanimously supported the definitive exclusion from the country's Constitution of Paragraph 3 of Article 24 allowing the use of death penalty in exceptional cases.
- JANUARY 1, 2006MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995 but the Constitution retains it for crimes committed during war or with an inevitable threat of war.
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2005MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. CONSTITUTIONAL COURT APPROVES BILLS BANNING DEATH PENALTY
the Constitutional Court of Moldova approved two draft laws concerning amendments to Article 24 Paragraph 3 of the constitution and providing for the abolition of the death penalty.
- AUGUST 18, 2005MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. MOLDOVA ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
the Moldovan government approved amendments to clause 24 of the republic's constitution aimed at abolishing the death penalty, Moldova's Deputy Justice Minister Nicolae Yeshanu said.
- JUNE 21, 2005MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. PRESIDENT URGES PARLIAMENT TO ELIMINATE DEATH PENALTY FROM CONSTITUTION
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin suggested that parliament make urgent amendments to the constitution in order to ban death penalty.
- APRIL 20, 2005MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- JANUARY 1, 2005MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995.
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995.
- APRIL 21, 2004MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 8, 2004MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995.
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995.
- APRIL 24, 2003MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Moldova was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- JANUARY 1, 2003MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes...
Moldova abolished the death penalty for all crimes in December 1995
- JANUARY 1, 2003MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty has been retained in the internationally...
The death penalty has been retained in the internationally unrecognized separatist entity of Transdniestria