Capital punishment in Luxembourg

[1] 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.

[3] Luxembourg is a member of the European Union and of the Council of Europe; and has also signed and ratified Protocol No.13.

Luxembourg is also a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; it signed the treaty on 13 February 1990 and ratified it on 12 February 1992.

[4] 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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