Norway
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 · Abolitionist for common crimes since 1902, Norway has...
- News items in the archive
- 60
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Norway 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 60 news items on Norway, from 1999 to today.
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DECEMBER 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - (Norway) Narges Mohammadi's children collect the Nobel in place of their mother, detained in Iran
FEBRUARY 15, 2021NorwayDEATH PENALTYSOMALILAND: NORWEGIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH COULD BE SHOT WITHIN A FEW DAYS
The Court of Appeal in Hargeisa on 14 February 2021 upheld the death sentence against the 54-year-old Norwegian citizen Saad Jirde Hayd in Somaliland.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020NorwayDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: THE EXECUTION OF NORWEGIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND HAS BEEN POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
Only hours before the 54-year-old Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre sentenced to death was to be executed in Somaliland, he was informed that it had been postponed.
NOVEMBER 19, 2020NorwayDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: NORWEGIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND
Norwegian citizen Saad Jidre on 18 November 2020 was sentenced to death in Hargeisa District Court in the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland.
- JANUARY 1, 2020NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2019NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2018NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2017NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2016NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2015NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2014NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2013NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- APRIL 17, 2012NorwayDEATH PENALTY
NORWAY: BREIVIK TRIAL LAY JUDGE DISMISSED OVER DEATH PENALTY COMMENT
One of five judges in the trial of Norwegian mass killer Ander Behring Breivik has been
- JANUARY 1, 2012NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2011NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JUNE 10, 2010NorwayDEATH PENALTY
NORWEGIANS GET NEW DEATH SENTENCE IN DRC
a military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death a second time for espionage and murder. Joshua French, who holds dual Norwegian-British citizenship, and Tjostolv Moland say that their driver Abedi Kasongo was killed
- APRIL 22, 2010NorwayDEATH PENALTY
DR CONGO COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE FOR NORWEGIANS
the Democratic Republic of Congo's military high court overturned the death sentences
- JANUARY 1, 2010NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- DECEMBER 4, 2009NorwayDEATH PENALTY
CONGO OVERRULES NORWEGIANS’ DEATH SENTENCES
the death sentence of the two Norwegians sentenced by the military court of Kisangani town in Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo was quashed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- DECEMBER 3, 2009NorwayDEATH PENALTY
DR CONGO COURT REJECTS APPEAL BY NORWEGIANS ON DEATH ROW
the military court of Orientale province in northern Democratic Republic of Congo rejected an appeal by Norwegians Tjostolv Moland, 28, and Joshua French, 27.
- OCTOBER 13, 2009NorwayDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: NORWEGIANS APPEAL DRC DEATH PENALTY
two Norwegians sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in September began an appeal against the sentence, judicial sources said.
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2009NorwayDEATH PENALTY
NORWAY SAYS DR CONGO WON'T EXECUTE CONDEMNED MEN
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has given assurances that two Norwegians sentenced to death for murder and spying would not be executed, Norway's foreign ministry said.
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2009NorwayDEATH PENALTY
DRC: TWO NORWEGIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced two Norwegians to death on charges of murder and espionage.
- JANUARY 1, 2009NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- JANUARY 1, 2008NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Norway voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Norway voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- JANUARY 1, 2007NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- APRIL 7, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FORMER NORWEGIAN PM URGES IRAN NOT TO HANG DISSIDENT
former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik appealed to the Iranian government not to go ahead as planned with the execution of long-time political prisoner Valiollah Feyz-Mahdavi.
- JANUARY 1, 2006NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1905, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979.
- AUGUST 18, 2005NorwayDEATH PENALTY
NORWAY. NORWAY RATIFIES PROTOCOL ON THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
Norway ratified Protocol No. 13 to the European Human Rights Convention concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, including crimes committed in war or under the threat of war.