Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

7 June 2001 (2001-06-07)
To ban the death penalty
Results
Choice Votes % Yes 610,455 62.08% No 372,950 37.92% Valid votes 983,405 98.55% Invalid or blank votes 14,480 1.45% Total votes 997,885 100.00% Registered voters/turnout 2,867,960 34.79%

The Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution Act 2001 (previously bill no. 16 of 2001) is an amendment of the Constitution of Ireland which introduced a constitutional ban on the death penalty and removed all references to capital punishment from the text. It was approved by referendum on 7 June 2001 and signed into law on 27 March 2002. The referendum was held on the same day as referendums on the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which was also approved, and on the ratification of the Nice Treaty, which was rejected.