Capital punishment in Belgium

Capital punishment in Belgium was formally abolished on August 1, 1996, for all crimes, in both peacetime and wartime.

The last execution for an ordinary crime took place on 26 March 1918 at Veurne Prison when Emile Ferfaille, a military officer found guilty of killing his pregnant girlfriend, was guillotined.

Between November 1944 and August 1950, 242 people were executed by firing squad for crimes committed during the Second World War.

On 2 February 2005, the prohibition of the death penalty was also included in the Belgian Constitution by inserting an Article 14bis.

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