Capital punishment in Croatia was abolished in 1990. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. Croatia (Hrvatska ˈxȓvatska officially the Republic of Croatia ( Republika Hrvatska) is a southern Central European country at the crossroads between Hanging was replaced by firing squads in 1959 in Yugoslavia with the last (civilian) execution in 1973. Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death Execution by firing squad is a method of Capital punishment, particularly common in times of war See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian Protocol number six of the European Convention on Human Rights came into force on 1997-12-01. The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (also called the "European Convention on Human Rights" and "ECHR" was adopted under the Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican [1]
Capital punishment is now also forbidden by the Constitution of Croatia which clearly states: "Every human being shall have the right to life. Current Constitution of the Republic of Croatia was adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia on December 22, 1990. In the Republic of Croatia there shall be no capital punishment". [2]
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