Capital punishment in Norway

Norwegian executioner's axe from 1742
Norwegian National Museum of Justice

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.

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^ Øversveen, Jørn (28 January 2009). "Den siste halshuggingen". Digitalt Fortalt. Retrieved 27 February 2009.

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[2] Øversveen, Jørn (28 January 2009). "Den siste halshuggingen". Digitalt Fortalt. Retrieved 27 February 2009.

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