The capital punishment was fully abolished in Norway in 1979 and its abolitionist status was enshrined in the Constitution in 2014.
Before then, death sentences had been abolished during peacetime since 1905 and the last execution carried out in peacetime dated back to 1876, although executions later took place during the Nazi occupation. The last execution carried by Norway was that of a collaborator with the Nazi occupation authorities in 1948. Norway has ratified both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1972 and its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2) in 1991.
21 June 2016: The city of Oslo hosted the 6th World Congress against the Death Penalty organized by Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM). A PGA delegation attended the three-day event. PGA also organized a side-event on the Role of Parliamentarians in the Battle against Death Penalty, hosted by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting). During the Closing Ceremony, PGA Member Hon. Kasthuri Patto delivered a message on behalf of parliamentarians against the death penalty.