San Marino
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 · San Marino abolished the death penalty for ordinary...
- News items in the archive
- 35
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
San Marino 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 35 news items on San Marino, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2000San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
San Marino abolished the death penalty for ordinary...
San Marino abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1848, fully abolished it in 1865, and the last execution took place way back in 1468
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
In November, Ambassador Gian Nicola Filippi Balestra,...
In November, Ambassador Gian Nicola Filippi Balestra, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly, said San Marino is firmly convinced that death, consciously and legally inflicted by one human being on another cannot be considered either as a
- JULY 1, 1999San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
On July 1, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Gabriele...
On July 1, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Gabriele Gatti instructed San Marino's permanent representative at the Council of Europe, Guido Ceccoli, "to communicate to the General Secretariat and to the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of th
- APRIL 28, 1999San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
San Marino was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
San Marino 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, 1999San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
San Marino abolished the death penalty for ordinary...
San Marino abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1848, fully abolished it in 1865, and the last execution took place way back in 1468