Capital punishment in Norway
Abolished in 1979 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capital punishment in Norway (Norwegian: dødsstraff) has been constitutionally prohibited since 2014.
Before that, it had been fully abolished in 1979, and earlier, from 1905, the penal code had abolished capital punishment in peacetime.[1]
The last execution in peacetime was carried out on 25 February 1876, when Kristoffer Nilsen Grindalen was beheaded in Løten,[2] but 37 people, mainly Norwegians and Germans, were executed after the Second World War and the years of Nazi occupation; among them Vidkun Quisling.