Netherlands
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 the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
- News items in the archive
- 66
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Netherlands 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 66 news items on Netherlands, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- APRIL 26, 2000NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
Netherlands cosponsored the resolution on the death...
Netherlands cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 18, 2000NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Affairs Ministry Buitenlandse Zaken said that...
Foreign Affairs Ministry Buitenlandse Zaken said that some 67% of the Dutch population support the admittance of 13 central and eastern European countries, including Turkey, into the European Union and 25% of those asked said countries should not have to
- JANUARY 11, 2000NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration...
200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration to protest against the death sentence imposed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 1, 2000NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1983) at Art
- APRIL 28, 1999NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The Netherlands was a cosponsor of the resolution on...
The Netherlands 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, 1999NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1983) at Art