Greece passed a law in 1993 which abolished the death...

Greece passed a law in 1993 which abolished the death penalty as a punishment applicable to offences defined in the Greek Penal Code. However, the death penalty continued to be provided for a number of offences under the Greek Military Penal Code. In 1997 a new Military Penal Code was introduced which restricted the death penalty to the most serious crimes in time of war. The same year, when ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, Greece made a reservation allowing for "application of the death penalty in time of war pursuant to a conviction for a most serious crime of a military nature committed during wartime".
In January 2001 Parliament approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the death penalty in peacetime, and in April 2001 a revised Constitution was adopted, including this amendment, which states: "The death penalty may not be imposed, except in cases which are prescribed by law for felonies which are committed in time of war and are connected with it".