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, 2003MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No...
Moldova has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms banning the death penalty in all circumstances
- MAY 3, 2002MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention...
Moldova signed Protocol 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which ensures the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- JANUARY 1, 2002MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995
- MAY 5, 2001MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Authorities in Moldova's separatist Dnestr region unexpectedly...
Authorities in Moldova's separatist Dnestr region unexpectedly freed a Romanian member of parliament after nine years on 'death row'
- APRIL 12, 2001MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin urged leaders...
Moldova's President Vladimir Voronin urged leaders of the separatist Dnestr region to release Ilie Ilascu, the Romanian Parliamentarian they have held on death row for nine years on terrorism charges
- JANUARY 1, 2001MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995
- JULY 11, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitutional Court approved a draft legislation...
The Constitutional Court approved a draft legislation that removes the death penalty from fundamental law
- MAY 21, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments...
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments of Moldova and Romania signed a joint declaration in which the two countries expressed their bid to join the EU and request a new trial of the Ilascu case
- APRIL 26, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Moldova cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 26, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The Confederation of Independent States (CIS) Parliamentary...
The Confederation of Independent States (CIS) Parliamentary Assembly delegation visited their Moldovan colleague, Ilie Ilascu, in a Transnistrian [Dniester region] prison, and came to a conclusion that his destiny can well be struggled for by the Chisinau
- JANUARY 1, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995
- APRIL 28, 1999MoldovaDEATH 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 on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995...
Moldova abolished the death penalty in December 1995 and signed Protocol No