Lithuania abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1998...

Lithuania abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1998 after the Lithuanian Constitutional Court, on December 9, held that the provisions of the Criminal Code on the death penalty were unconstitutional.
On December 22, 1998 the Lithuanian Parliament passed a law amending several provisions of the Criminal Code and confirming the abolition of the death penalty. At the same time, another law was passed converting death sentences already pronounced to life imprisonment.
At the time of abolition in 1998, nine prisoners were thought to be on death row. The last person executed, in July 1995, was Lithuanian Mafia boss Boris Dekanidze, for complicity in the murder of a journalist.
A legal moratorium on executions was established in 1996, following a presidential decree. On January 29, 2004 Lithuania deposited with the Council of Europe the instrument of ratification of Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms banning the death penalty in all circumstances.
On December 16, 2020, Lithuania co-sponsored and voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.