The last execution was carried out in February 1995

The last execution was carried out in February 1995. In 1997, after establishing a legal moratorium on executions President Eduard Shevardnadze commuted the 54 outstanding death sentences to 20-year prison sentences.
The death penalty is still retained in Georgia's two separatist regions: Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The two regions are de facto independent but recognised abroad as part of Georgia, which has ruled out independence. The death penalty is legal punishment in both self-declared republics in peacetime and in wartime. Abkhazia's de facto Criminal Code envisages the death penalty for nine peacetime crimes and at least 15 military crimes committed in wartime or imminent threat of war. However the de facto Abkhaz authorities declared a moratorium on executions in 1993.
South Ossetia has instituted the death penalty for the trade or manufacture of illegal narcotics and envisages the death penalty for five other crimes.
However, in 1992 the de facto South Ossetian Cabinet of Ministers issued a decree under which Russian legislation shall be operational, and since 1996, following the example of the Russian Federation, South Ossetia has been observing an unofficial moratorium on executions.