Capital punishment inSlovakia (Slovak:Trest smrti) was abolished in 1990 and the most severe punishment permissible by law islife imprisonment. Before that,capital punishment was common inCzechoslovakia, theSlovak State,Austria-Hungary, theKingdom of Hungary and probably all previous political entities thatexisted in the area of today's Slovakia. Since 1989, no one has been executed in Slovakia save for a few controversial political killings by theSlovak Secret Service in the 1990s.[1][2] Since then, there have been no reports of the government or its agents committing arbitrary or unlawful killings.[3]
The last person executed in Slovakia remainsŠtefan Svitek (28) fromPodbrezová who killed his wife and two daughters with anaxe in 1987 and was executed on 8 June 1989 inBratislava,Czechoslovakia (at that time).[4]
A 2001 poll found that support for the Death penalty was 57%.[5]
A 2005 poll carried out by the MVK agency for the SME daily found 61.7 percent of the respondents in favour of reintroducing capital punishment in Slovakia.[6]
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