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, 2000UkraineDEATH 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
- DECEMBER 30, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On December 30, the Constitutional Court decided that...
On December 30, the Constitutional Court decided that the death penalty is not in compliance with the Constitution
- DECEMBER 3, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On December 3, Deputy Justice Minister Lidia Gorbunova...
On December 3, Deputy Justice Minister Lidia Gorbunova said Ukraine was moving towards abolition of death penalty even though the society regarded this as premature because the Council of Europe was pressing for abolition, and Ukraine itself was willing t
- NOVEMBER 2, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On November 2, Ukraine representative Ms
On November 2, Ukraine representative Ms
- OCTOBER 12, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On October 12 Viktor Medvedchuk, the Parliament's Deputy...
On October 12 Viktor Medvedchuk, the Parliament's Deputy Chairman said that the Ukrainian Parliament could not meet the Council of Europe's demand that it ban capital punishment because the rising crime rate and the complex social situation "make it impos
- AUGUST 26, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On August 26, the Ukrainian Supreme Court left unchanged...
On August 26, the Ukrainian Supreme Court left unchanged the death penalty for the serial killer Onopriyenko
- AUGUST 26, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On August 26, the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs,...
On August 26, the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, Yuriy Kravchenko said Ukraine would be ready for life imprisonment of convicts sentenced to capital punishment in two years if 50m hryvnyas were invested in development of the Ukrainian penitentiar
- AUGUST 9, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On August 9, the Supreme Court of the Crimea in Ukraine...
On August 9, the Supreme Court of the Crimea in Ukraine sentenced Dmitry Dyomin a member of a satanic cult to death for murdering and eating a 15 year-old girl, in November
- JULY 22, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On July 22, it was reported that an opinion poll held...
On July 22, it was reported that an opinion poll held by Socis-Gallup shows that of 1,200 respondents, 43% were against the abolition of the death penalty
- JULY 7, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On July 7, the Ukrainian Parliament demanded that the...
On July 7, the Ukrainian Parliament demanded that the death sentence passed on Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan be reversed
- JUNE 1, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In June, the Parliamentary Assembly concluded from...
In June, the Parliamentary Assembly concluded from the report submitted by its Monitoring Committee that no substantial progress was achieved by May 20, 1999 in the above-mentioned areas
- MAY 27, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 27, President Kuchma said he doubted that the...
On May 27, President Kuchma said he doubted that the country's Parliament would vote to abolish capital punishment
- MAY 20, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 20, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
On May 20, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to recommend that the Assembly should suspend the credentials of the Ukrainian delegation because Ukraine did not respect its commitments on the death penalty
- MAY 18, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, President Kuchma said at a meeting with...
On May 18, President Kuchma said at a meeting with teachers and students of the Institute for Foreign Relations at Kiev National University that "he will never agree" to replacing the death penalty for Onopriyenko with life imprisonment
- APRIL 28, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Ukraine was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28, 1999 (1999/61)
- APRIL 7, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On April 7, Chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Council...
On April 7, Chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Council (Parliament), Oleksandr Tkachenko, spoke in favor of the unconditional execution of the death sentence for serial murderer Onopriyenko
- APRIL 1, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, the Zhytomyr Regional Court handed Anatoliy...
On April 1, the Zhytomyr Regional Court handed Anatoliy Onopriyenko the expected death sentence
- APRIL 1, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In April, it was reported that the majority of people...
In April, it was reported that the majority of people who took part in an opinion poll carried out by the all-Ukrainian political union, Yedyna Rodyna (United Family), favored the death sentence as the highest punitive measure in Ukraine
- MARCH 23, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, during a state visit of Ukrainian President...
On March 23, during a state visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Sweden, Birgitta Dahl of the Swedish Riksdag (Parliament) called attention to issues concerning Ukraine's membership in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and to t
- MARCH 19, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Mynko, charged...
On March 19, Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Mynko, charged with robbing and murdering US Peace Corps volunteer, Viktor Verlow, was sentenced to death by the Chernihiv Regional Court
- JANUARY 27, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with its Resolution 1179 adopted on January 27, 1999, considered that the Ukrainian authorities, including the Verkhovna Rada, are responsible to a great extent for the failure to respect the comm
- JANUARY 1, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In recent years, the death penalty has been abolished...
In recent years, the death penalty has been abolished for 13 crimes, but 23 articles of the Criminal Code still provide for it