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The European Union has long since been opposed to the death penalty, supporting the European Convention, and its 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights included an absolute ban on the death penalty in all circumstances.
25 lut 2019 · All EU countries have abolished the death penalty in line with the European Convention on Human Rights. The EU fights to abolish the death penalty in a number of ways: It prohibits trade in goods that can be used for torture and execution. It uses trade policy to encourage compliance with human rights.
8 lip 2020 · The EU regrets that Belarus is the last European country which still applies the death penalty. In 2019, three death sentences were delivered, three men were executed, and there are currently four men on death row. Already in 2020, the Belarussian courts pronounced three death sentences.
According to these guidelines, in countries that still retain the death penalty, the EU should advocate the establishment of a moratorium, and if this is not possible, for its increasingly restrictive use and for the respect of minimum standards, in line with international law.
The objectives of the European Union are: To work towards universal abolition of the death penalty as a strongly held policy view. agreed by all EU member states; if necessary with the immediate establishment of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolition.
8 paź 2021 · On the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, the European Union and the Council of Europe reaffirm their firm opposition to capital punishment at all times and in all circumstances. The death penalty is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment contrary to the right to life.
18 mar 2021 · The EU and its Member States regret that there is one European country that still applies the death penalty, Belarus. While we welcome that no execution was carried out in 2020, we deeply regret that another death sentence was imposed on 15 January 2021, during the retrial of Viktar Skrundzik by the Minsk Regional Court.
