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
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost...
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost and make Thailand's authorities vacate the death sentence to Ukrainian citizen Viktoria Mamontova
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code under which the most...
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code under which the most severe crimes are punished by life sentences became effective on September 1, 2001
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code became effective on September...
A new Ukrainian Criminal Code became effective on September 1, 2001
- AUGUST 31, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court cleared the way for...
Costa Rica's Constitutional Court cleared the way for the expulsion of Ukrainian Nazi Bodan Kosiy Ivanovich, 80, as had been ordered by the government in February 2000
- AUGUST 31, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko said the...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko said the Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma instructed the Foreign Ministry to strive for the observation of the rights of the Ukrainian citizens Mykola Soltys and Victoria Mamontova by foreign officials, in full
- AUGUST 27, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The mother of a Ukrainian woman named Viktoriya Mamontova...
The mother of a Ukrainian woman named Viktoriya Mamontova appealed to the Council of Europe in trying to get her death sentence revoked
- AUGUST 17, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Thonburi Criminal Court, in Thailand, sentenced...
The Thonburi Criminal Court, in Thailand, sentenced to death a Ukrainian woman for having 1
- MAY 21, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
President Leonid Kuchma signed the Criminal Code that...
President Leonid Kuchma signed the Criminal Code that was recently approved by Parliament, thus ensuring that it will come into force
- APRIL 6, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)...
The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) recommended the suspension of Ukraine from the organization
- APRIL 5, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine's parliament overwhelmingly approved a new...
Ukraine's parliament overwhelmingly approved a new criminal code, abolishing the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On December 30, 1999, the Constitutional Court ruled...
On December 30, 1999, the Constitutional Court ruled that the articles on the death penalty in the criminal code violated the principle of respect for human life and were unconstitutional
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Mikhail Potebenko announced...
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Mikhail Potebenko announced that the number of first-degree murders would rise in the Ukraine due to a moratorium on death penalties
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Vitaliy Boyko, the chairman of the Supreme Court said...
Vitaliy Boyko, the chairman of the Supreme Court said in an interview that before the death penalty was abolished as a Council of Europe requirement there used to be between 120 and 150 death sentences handed out every year
- JULY 20, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Parliamentarians stated in the 'Kievskiye Vedomosti'...
Parliamentarians stated in the 'Kievskiye Vedomosti' newspaper that they thought the parliamentary procedure rules and the constitution were violated during the ratification of the No 6 protocol, which abolished the death penalty in Ukraine
- JUNE 8, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the...
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the death penalty for life imprisonment
- MAY 3, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Costa Rica confirmed its intention to deport Nazi criminal...
Costa Rica confirmed its intention to deport Nazi criminal Bogdan Kozy, a Ukrainian who served in the German police while his native country was occupied by the Nazis in World War II
- APRIL 26, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Ukraine cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the law...
President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the law abolishing the death penalty with immediate effect
- MARCH 15, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Internal Affairs minister, Yuriy Kravchenko, addressing...
The Internal Affairs minister, Yuriy Kravchenko, addressing parliament, said that 419 people who had been sentenced to capital punishment will most probably receive long prison terms
- MARCH 1, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, said Hungary welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The European Union welcomed the 22 February decision...
The European Union welcomed the 22 February decision of the Parliament of Ukraine to abolish the death penalty and to ratify Protocol 6 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the
- FEBRUARY 25, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In Zhytomyr, signatures were being collected for a...
In Zhytomyr, signatures were being collected for a request addressed to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma demanding the death penalty for the serial killer Anatoliy Onopriyenko
- FEBRUARY 23, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe welcomed the 22 February votes...
The Council of Europe welcomed the 22 February votes by Ukraine's parliament to abolish the death penalty and ratify Protocol No
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's...
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's decision, the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) abolished the death penalty clauses contained in the country's criminal code, criminal code of practice and correctional code replacing it with a maximum sente
- FEBRUARY 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's...
Following the 30 December 1999 Constitutional Court's decision, the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) abolished the death penalty clauses contained in the country's criminal code, criminal code of practice and correctional code replacing it with a maximum sente
- JANUARY 19, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The substitution of the death penalty with imprisonment...
The substitution of the death penalty with imprisonment for life will raise the efficiency of punishment, Minister of the Interior Yurii Kravchenko said
- JANUARY 14, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) welcomed the decision of the...
The European Union (EU) welcomed the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine regarding the death penalty as unconstitutional
- JANUARY 6, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko said "a presidential...
Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko said "a presidential guarantee in accordance with a relevant decision by the Ukrainian Constitutional Court stating that the death penalty will no longer be carried out in Ukraine" will aid investigations into crimes imp
- JANUARY 5, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] hailed the 30 December 1999 decision by the Ukrainian Constitutional Court on the abolition of the death penalty
- JANUARY 5, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Geneva-based body that works for the rule of law around the world, hailed Ukraine's Constitutional Court for ruling that the death penalty must be abolished in the former Soviet republic