Poland abolished the death penalty in 1997 and a penal code introduced in 1998 replaced it with life imprisonment.

Poland abolished the death penalty in 1997 and a penal code introduced in 1998 replaced it with life imprisonment.
The death penalty was abolished despite vocal campaigning by right-wing activists who pointed out that more than 60 percent of Poles supported capital punishment for brutal murders. The last execution was carried out in 1988.