Capital punishment in Slovenia
- Capital punishment in Slovenia
In Slovenia the last execution was a hanging which took place in 1957. The death penalty was abolished in 1989 when Slovenia was still a federal republic of the former Yugoslavia. When Slovenia got its [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Slovenia democratic constitution] on the 23 December 1991 capital punishment became unconstitutional.
Quotation|Article 17 (Inviolability of Human Life)
Human life is inviolable. There is no capital punishment in Slovenia.
Constitution of Slovenia
On the 1st of July 1994 protocol No. 6 to the ECHR came into force. Later Slovenia also adopted the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR.
References
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