Capital punishment in Luxembourg was abolished for all crimes in 1979. After

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, 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 Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

took place in 1949. 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. Luxembourg is a member of the

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and of the Council of Europe; and has also signed and ratifie
Protocol No.13
Luxembourg is also a state party to the

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, is a subsidiary agreement to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It was created on 15 D ...

; it signed the treaty on 13 February 1990 and ratified it on 12 February 1992. 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.

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