Capital punishment in Bulgaria was abolished on December 12, 1998 with the last execution, that of attempted saboteur Georgi Alinski, having been carried out on November 4, 1989. The Parliament of Bulgaria had introduced a moratorium on executions on July 7, 1990 and Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights came into force on October 1, 1999.
A 2016 poll found that 47% of Bulgarians were opposed to the Death Penaty, while 33% were in support.
Notable executions in the 20th-century Kingdom of Bulgaria Executed personGenderDate of sentenceDate of executionPlace of executionCrimeMethodRef.Male27 May 1925SofiaCommunist terrorists participating in the St Nedelya Church assaultHangingPetar ZadgorskiGeorgi Koev27 June 1925AntonConspiring to aid communist activityFiring squadThe Gostevi brothersSokrat Kirshveng14 April 1937Sofia"The Killer with the Adze"; serial killer who killed his aunt and her husband during a robbery in Sofia, but had previously been convicted of killing two wives and attempting to kill a third in 1919. The first sentence was commuted to 17 years imprisonment, and he was released in 1937.Hanging26 June 1942Instigating communist rebellion; tried as part of the ""Firing squadTrifon GeorgievVasil YotovIvan IzatovskiYozef BaidoAndon BekyarovDimitar DimitrovVasil DodovStefan PashevBoris TomchevDelcho NaplatanovIvan DrenovskiGeorgi KratunchevDimitar TeplyakovIvan IvanovGeorgi BashikarovYanko KomitovTodor NikolovNikolai RomanovMirko PetkovSimeon SlavovIvan ShterevMilyo MilevDimo AstadzhovVladimir Chernov23 July 1942Communist revolutionaries in opposition to the Filov governmentNikola Vaptsarov18 August 1942Participation in the League of Communists of YugoslaviaHanging4 December 1942Participation in the Workers Youth LeagueFiring squad21 March 1943SkopjeParticipation in the League of Communists of YugoslaviaHanging13 October 1943VidinAiding communist rebellion17 December 1943PlevenFiring squad1 March 1944LomLeading a communist partisan squadronHanging1 June 1944PlovdivAiding communist rebellionFiring squadFemaleEleshnitsaParticipating on the communist side during the ""Frank ThompsonMale10 June 1944Lazar AtanasovHristo Gurbov1945SofiaMember of the Tsarist governmentKiril, Prince of Preslav1 February 1945Member of the royal family and regent of BulgariaNikola MihovLieutenant general and regent of BulgariaDobri BozhilovFormer Prime Minister of Bulgaria, supposed charges of war and financial crimesPetar GabrovskiFormer Prime Minister of Bulgaria and lawyerIvan BagrianovMember of the Tsarist governmentBogdan Filov2 February 1945Prime Minister of Bulgaria and regent of the Tsarist governmentAleksandar StaliyskiCollaboration with pro-Axis cabinetMember of the Tsarist government6 March 1945unknownKonstantin Lukash15 March 1945SofiaOfficer and Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian ArmyMember of the Tsarist government21 April 1945September 1945KyustendilGoryanin, waging rebellion against the communist governmentHanging26 October 1945unknownAttempted rebellion against the communist governmentFiring squad
People's Republic of Bulgaria Executed personGenderDate of sentenceDate of executionPlace of executionCrimeMethodRef.Male1948NevrokopGoryanin, waging rebellion against the communist governmentHangingPavel Djidjov3 October 1952SofiaCatholics, subverting communist ideologyFiring squadEugene Bossilkov11 November 1952Hogland, V:"A Modern Christian Martyr: Bishop Eugene Bossilkov, C.P." ,Josaphat ChichkovKamen Vitchev4 January 1964Espionage on behalf of the United StatesShooting18 February 1969Espionage on behalf of the United States, France and AlbaniaGeorgi Yordanov1975Known as "Joro the Paver, the Second". Serial rapist who raped ten women in Sofia in the early 1970s, committing a double murder in the process.Zhivko Dimitrov1981TolbuhinSerial killer. Murdered six people in Dobrich Province from 1975 to 1981 for money.Margarit Dimitrov 28 January 1987SofiaEspionage on behalf of the Western countriesGeorgi Alinski4 November 1989SofiaAttempted to sabotage a lift in Borovets to prevent the country from participating in a ski championship
See also Krum's laws
References
External links The end of capital punishment in Europe.