Capital punishment in Luxembourg
Capital punishment in Luxembourg was abolished for all crimes in 1979.[1][2]
After World War II, Luxembourgish courts sentenced 18 people, including 4 Germans and 11 Luxembourgish collaborators, to death for wartime crimes. Of those 18 convicts, 9 were executed, 7 were reprieved, and two sentenced in absentia. The last execution in Luxembourg took place in 1949.[1]
Luxembourg's last execution for ordinary crimes occurred on 7 August 1948, when Nikolaus Bernardy was shot for killing a family of three, as well as their farmhand and maid. Bernady was the only common criminal executed in Luxembourg since 1879.[3]
Luxembourg is a member of the European Union and of the Council of Europe; and has also signed and ratified Protocol No.13. Luxembourg is also a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; it signed the treaty on 13 February 1990 and ratified it on 12 February 1992.[4] Luxembourg voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on capital punishment all eight times, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.
References
- ^ a b "HANDS OFF CAIN against death penalty in the world". Handsoffcain.info. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
- ^ "Why Amnesty opposes the death penalty without exception". Amnesty.org. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "Der letzte Gemeinverbrecher wurde vor 60 Jahren hingerichtet - Tageblatt.lu". www.tageblatt.lu. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ^ "12. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty". un.org. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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