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
- 63
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 63 news items on Norway, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999NorwayDEATH PENALTY
On November 1, about 300 anti-American demonstrators...
On November 1, about 300 anti-American demonstrators protested U
- APRIL 28, 1999NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Norway was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution...
Norway was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1902, Norway has...
Abolitionist for common crimes since 1902, Norway has been fully abolitionist since 1979