Romania
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 Romania (1991) at Art
- News items in the archive
- 50
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Romania 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 50 news items on Romania, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2002RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The president of the opposition Greater Romania Party...
The president of the opposition Greater Romania Party (PRM) Corneliu Vadim Tudor called for the introduction of the death penalty for child murderers and rapists in a range of Romanian counties and for a certain period of time
- AUGUST 29, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase presented in Snagov a...
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase presented in Snagov a series of measures for the redress of the economic and social life in Romania including plans to reintroduce the death penalty for drug dealers
- MAY 5, 2001RomaniaDEATH 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 25, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the...
Romania was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- JANUARY 22, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater...
Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater Romania Party (PRM, the second-biggest party in parliament,) presented the case of Romanian patriot Ilie Ilascu, currently a PRM senator, to the president of the European Democrats' Political Group, to w
- JANUARY 17, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored...
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored by Government
- JANUARY 1, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
- DECEMBER 9, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Ultranationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor tapped a rich...
Ultranationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor tapped a rich vein of anger among Romanians against crime, corruption and minorities to reach a runoff second round for president against leftist Ion Iliescu
- OCTOBER 5, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that...
Romania's Passport General Directorate announced that Ilie Ilascu and his wife Nina were granted Romanian citizenship
- JULY 6, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
President Emil Constantinescu requested that the OSCE's...
President Emil Constantinescu requested that the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly step in and help secure the release of Ilie Ilascu
- JUNE 13, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum...
More than 100 Romanian journalists, attending the "Forum of the Romanian Press Everywhere" appealed to the Presidents, Governments and Parliaments of Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the Ukraine for a firm intervention to obtain the release of Romania
- MAY 26, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his...
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Geremek, that Poland assume the judicial retrial of Ilie Ilascu, who is detained in a Tiraspol prison
- MAY 21, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and...
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and Moldovan parliaments signed a joint declaration in which the two countries requested a new trial of the Ilie Ilascu case
- APRIL 29, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Jurists' Union of Romania addressed an open letter...
The Jurists' Union of Romania addressed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to intervene to secure the prison release of Ilie Ilascu and the members of his group, who were sentenced to death in December 1993 by the separatist au
- APRIL 26, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Romania cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 11, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Otto Weber, leader of the Ecologists' Party, proposed...
Otto Weber, leader of the Ecologists' Party, proposed amendments to the penal code to re-introduce the death sentence for aggravated murders
- JANUARY 1, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
- APRIL 28, 1999RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania was a cosponsor and voted in favor of the resolution...
Romania 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, 1999RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art
The Constitution of Romania (1991) at Art