Capital punishment in Bulgaria

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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.[1] The Parliament of Bulgaria had introduced a moratorium on July 7, 1990 and protocol number six of the European Convention on Human Rights came into force on October 1, 1999.

Notable executions in the 20th-century[]

Executed person Gender Date of sentence Date of execution Place of execution Crime Method Ref.
 [bg] Male 1925 27 May 1925 Sofia Communist terrorists participating in the St Nedelya Church assault Hanging [2]
Petar Zadgorski
Georgi Koev
 [bg] 27 June 1925 Anton Conspiring to aid communist activity Firing squad [3]
 [bg]
The Gostevi brothers
Sokrat Kirshveng 1937 14 April 1937 Sofia "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. Hanging [4]
 [bg] 1942 26 June 1942 Instigating communist rebellion; tried as part of the " [bg]" Firing squad [5]
Trifon Georgiev
Vasil Yotov
Ivan Izatovski
Yozef Baido
Andon Bekyarov
Dimitar Dimitrov
Vasil Dodov
Stefan Pashev
Boris Tomchev
Delcho Naplatanov
Ivan Drenovski
Georgi Kratunchev
Dimitar Teplyakov
Ivan Ivanov
Georgi Bashikarov
Yanko Komitov
Todor Nikolov
Nikolai Romanov
Mirko Petkov
Simeon Slavov
Ivan Shterev
Milyo Milev
Dimo Astadzhov
Vladimir Chernov
 [bg] [6]
 [bg] 23 July 1942 Communist revolutionaries in opposition to the Filov government [7]
 [bg] [8]
Nikola Vaptsarov [9]
 [bg] [10]
 [bg] [11]
 [bg] [11]
 [bg] 18 August 1942 Participation in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Hanging [12]
 [bg] 4 December 1942 Participation in the Workers Youth League Firing squad [13]
 [bg] 21 March 1943 Skopje Participation in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Hanging [14]
 [bg] 1943 13 October 1943 Vidin Aiding communist rebellion [15]
 [bg] 17 December 1943 Pleven Firing squad [16]
 [bg] 1944 1 March 1944 Lom Leading a communist partisan squadron Hanging [17]
 [bg] 1 June 1944 Plovdiv Aiding communist rebellion Firing squad [18]
 [bg]
 [bg] Female Eleshnitsa Participating on the communist side during the " [bg]" [19]
Frank Thompson Male 10 June 1944  [bg] [20]
Lazar Atanasov
Hristo Gurbov
 [bg] 1945 1945 Sofia Member of the Tsarist government [21]
Kiril, Prince of Preslav 1 February 1945 Member of the royal family and regent of Bulgaria [22]
Nikola Mihov Lieutenant general and regent of Bulgaria [23]
Dobri Bozhilov Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, supposed charges of war and financial crimes [24]
Petar Gabrovski Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria and lawyer [25]
Ivan Bagrianov Member of the Tsarist government [26]
 [bg] [27]
 [bg] [28]
 [bg] [29]
 [bg] [30]
 [bg] [31]
 [bg] [32]
 [bg] [33]
 [bg]
 [bg]
Bogdan Filov 2 February 1945 Prime Minister of Bulgaria and regent of the Tsarist government [34]
Aleksandar Staliyski Collaboration with pro-Axis cabinet [35]
 [bg] Member of the Tsarist government [36]
 [bg] 6 March 1945 unknown [37]
Konstantin Lukash 15 March 1945 Sofia Officer and Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army [38]
 [bg] Member of the Tsarist government [39]
 [bg] 21 April 1945 [40]
 [bg] September 1945 Kyustendil Goryanin, waging rebellion against the communist government Hanging [41]
 [bg] 26 October 1945 unknown Attempted rebellion against the communist government Firing squad [42]
 [bg] 1948 1948 Nevrokop Goryanin, waging rebellion against the communist government Hanging [43]
Pavel Djidjov 1952 3 October 1952 Sofia Catholics, subverting communist ideology Firing squad [44]
Eugene Bossilkov 11 November 1952 [45]
Josaphat Chichkov [44]
Kamen Vitchev
Georgi Alinski 1984 4 November 1989 Attempted to sabotage a lift in Borovets to prevent the country from participating in a ski championship Shooting [1]

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