Life imprisonment in Slovakia (doživotný trest odňatia slobody in Slovak) is a sentence of indeterminate length, lasting until the convict's death.
As of 2007 there were 28 people serving a life sentence in Slovakia,[1] all of them located in two high-security prisons in Ilava and Leopoldov.
Two prisoners have committed suicide while serving their sentences and there were no amnesties or releases on probation in the history of Slovakia.
The last person to be executed in Slovakia is Štefan Svitek[2] who was hanged on June 8, 1989, in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia.
People sentenced to life imprisonment in Slovakia are assigned three and a half meters squared space in their cell, which includes a bed, table, wardrobe, radio and electric lighting.