Ukraine
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 · In recent years, the death penalty has been abolished...
- News items in the archive
- 112
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Ukraine 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 112 news items on Ukraine, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2006UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament.
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament.
- APRIL 20, 2005UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Ukraine was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- JANUARY 1, 2005UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament.
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament.
- AUGUST 2, 2004UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Yabluko party's leader, Mykhailo Brodskyi, a candidate...
The Yabluko party's leader, Mykhailo Brodskyi, a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections, promised to reintroduce the capital punishment if he was elected president
- APRIL 21, 2004UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the...
Ukraine was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 8, 2004UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament.
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament.
- JUNE 7, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (UNIAN)...
The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (UNIAN) reported that two Ukrainians, Ruslan Voytyuk, born in 1973, and Oleksander Kuskin, born in 1978, had lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court of Belarus against their death sentences for the murder of a bu
- APRIL 30, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The European Court of Human Rights obligated Ukraine...
The European Court of Human Rights obligated Ukraine to pay 6 Ukrainian detainees, which had filed suits against the country, between 2 and 3 thousand Euros each
- APRIL 24, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the...
Ukraine was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- JANUARY 13, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Viktoria Mamontova, a Ukrainian woman who was sentenced...
Viktoria Mamontova, a Ukrainian woman who was sentenced to death for drug possession in Thailand, had her sentence commuted
- JANUARY 1, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In December 2002 Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma...
In December 2002 Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed into law the bill on ratification of Protocol 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, dealing with abolition of death penalty under all circumstances
- JANUARY 1, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
About 180 people were executed in Ukraine between 1995...
About 180 people were executed in Ukraine between 1995 and March 1997
- JANUARY 1, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000,...
Ukraine abolished the death penalty in February 2000, with an overwhelming majority vote of the members of the Ukrainian parliament
- JANUARY 1, 2003UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine had promised to abolish the death penalty when...
Ukraine had promised to abolish the death penalty when it joined the Council of Europe in 1995, and the government was sharply criticized for its failure to fully abolish it
- DECEMBER 18, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed into law the...
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed into law the bill on ratification of Protocol 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, dealing with abolition of death penalty under all circumstances
- NOVEMBER 28, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian parliament ratified Protocol 13 to the...
The Ukrainian parliament ratified Protocol 13 to the Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms concerning the abolition of death penalty under all circumstances
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
When asked in a newspaper interview if he thought that...
When asked in a newspaper interview if he thought that Ukraine had abolished the death penalty too early, Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun stated: "I think the death penalty is a more efficient instrument to prevent serious crimes
- AUGUST 5, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Nearly 140 people held a vigil at the Appeals Court...
Nearly 140 people held a vigil at the Appeals Court in the Lviv region, demanding that the maximum penalty, life imprisonment, be conferred upon Dmytro Voronova and Yurii Kalynina, both of who are suspected of involvement in the murder of a local composer
- JUNE 18, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prosecutor-General Oleksiy Bahanets that each...
Deputy Prosecutor-General Oleksiy Bahanets that each year the number of premeditated and group murders has been on the rise since the moratorium on capital punishment was announced in Ukraine
- MAY 3, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine signed Protocol 13 of the the European Convention...
Ukraine signed Protocol 13 of the the European Convention on Human Rights that envisages the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances including time of war
- MARCH 31, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The court of appeal in the United Arab Emirates upheld...
The court of appeal in the United Arab Emirates upheld the verdict of a court of lower instance condemning Ukrainian Andriy Svirid to death for assassination
- MARCH 12, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is taking measures to...
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is taking measures to have the death sentence lifted from Ukrainian national Viktoria Mamontova, who was convicted of heroin possession and sentenced to death in Thailand
- FEBRUARY 12, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian embassy in the United Arab Emirates appealed...
The Ukrainian embassy in the United Arab Emirates appealed to court institutions in Dubai, asking them to commute the death sentence given to Andrei Svirid, who was condemned on February 9 for the murder of a Dubai jeweller
- FEBRUARY 11, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The lawyer of a Ukrainian citizen sentenced to death...
The lawyer of a Ukrainian citizen sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates on February 9 for murder is preparing an appeal
- FEBRUARY 9, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
A Russian and a Ukrainian were sentenced to death in...
A Russian and a Ukrainian were sentenced to death in Dubai for murdering an Indian jeweller during a robbery in which they made off with $US1
- JANUARY 1, 2002UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In December 1999 the Ukraine Constitutional Court ruled...
In December 1999 the Ukraine Constitutional Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional, and the Ukrainian parliament abolished it in 2000
- OCTOBER 9, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Thailand postponed till 2002 the...
The Supreme Court of Thailand postponed till 2002 the consideration of the appeal of Ukrainian citizen Viktoriya Mamontova, sentenced to death for smuggling drugs on August 17, 2001
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Yabluko party deputies in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada...
Yabluko party deputies in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Mykhailo Brodsky, Viktor Chaika, and Yuri Sakhno submitted a bill to amend the Ukrainian Criminal Code to partially restore the application of the death penalty in the country
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Walter...
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Walter Schwimmer asked Thailand's authorities to take all possible measures to lift the capital punishment meted out to the Ukrainian citizen Viktoria Mamontova
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Members of Parliament decided to revise the process...
Members of Parliament decided to revise the process and outcome of the vote on the abolition of the death penalty