Capital punishment in Bulgaria explained

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 executions on July 7, 1990 and Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights came into force on October 1, 1999.

A 2016 poll found that 47% of Bulgarians were opposed to the Death Penaty, while 33% were in support.[2] [3] [4]

Notable executions in the 20th-century

Kingdom of Bulgaria

Executed personGenderDate of sentenceDate of executionPlace of executionCrimeMethodRef.
Male27 May 1925SofiaCommunist terrorists participating in the St Nedelya Church assaultHanging[5]
Petar Zadgorski
Georgi Koev
27 June 1925AntonConspiring to aid communist activityFiring squad[6]
The Gostevi brothers
Sokrat Kirshveng14 April 1937Sofia"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[7]
26 June 1942Instigating communist rebellion; tried as part of the ""Firing squad[8]
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
[9]
23 July 1942Communist revolutionaries in opposition to the Filov government[10]
[11]
Nikola Vaptsarov[12]
[13]
[14]
18 August 1942Participation in the League of Communists of YugoslaviaHanging[15]
4 December 1942Participation in the Workers Youth LeagueFiring squad[16]
21 March 1943SkopjeParticipation in the League of Communists of YugoslaviaHanging[17]
13 October 1943VidinAiding communist rebellion[18]
17 December 1943PlevenFiring squad[19]
1 March 1944LomLeading a communist partisan squadronHanging[20]
1 June 1944PlovdivAiding communist rebellionFiring squad[21]
FemaleEleshnitsaParticipating on the communist side during the ""[22]
Frank ThompsonMale10 June 1944[23]
Lazar Atanasov
Hristo Gurbov
1945SofiaMember of the Tsarist government[24]
Kiril, Prince of Preslav1 February 1945Member of the royal family and regent of Bulgaria[25]
Nikola MihovLieutenant general and regent of Bulgaria[26]
Dobri BozhilovFormer Prime Minister of Bulgaria, supposed charges of war and financial crimes[27]
Petar GabrovskiFormer Prime Minister of Bulgaria and lawyer[28]
Ivan BagrianovMember of the Tsarist government[29]
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[31]
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[33]
[34]
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Bogdan Filov2 February 1945Prime Minister of Bulgaria and regent of the Tsarist government[37]
Aleksandar StaliyskiCollaboration with pro-Axis cabinet[38]
Member of the Tsarist government[39]
6 March 1945unknown[40]
Konstantin Lukash15 March 1945SofiaOfficer and Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army[41]
Member of the Tsarist government[42]
21 April 1945[43]
September 1945KyustendilGoryanin, waging rebellion against the communist governmentHanging[44]
26 October 1945unknownAttempted rebellion against the communist governmentFiring squad[45]

People's Republic of Bulgaria

Executed personGenderDate of sentenceDate of executionPlace of executionCrimeMethodRef.
Male1948NevrokopGoryanin, waging rebellion against the communist governmentHanging[46]
Pavel Djidjov3 October 1952SofiaCatholics, subverting communist ideologyFiring squad
Eugene Bossilkov11 November 1952[47]
Josaphat Chichkov[48]
Kamen Vitchev
4 January 1964Espionage on behalf of the United StatesShooting[49]
18 February 1969Espionage on behalf of the United States, France and Albania[50]
Georgi Yordanov1975Known as "Joro the Paver, the Second". Serial rapist who raped ten women in Sofia in the early 1970s, committing a double murder in the process.[51]
Zhivko Dimitrov1981TolbuhinSerial killer. Murdered six people in Dobrich Province from 1975 to 1981 for money.[52]
Georgi Alinski4 November 1989SofiaAttempted to sabotage a lift in Borovets to prevent the country from participating in a ski championship

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See also

Notes and References

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  2. https://www.gallup-international.bg/en/35097/summer-issues-sports-and-death/
  3. https://www.novinite.com/articles/175863/Most+Bulgarians+Oppose+Return+of+Death+Penalty+-+Poll
  4. https://bnr.bg/en/post/100725461/almost-half-of-bulgarias-citizens-are-against-death-penalty
  5. Book: Историческите събития и деятели от навечерието на Освобождението ни до днес. Petar Peshev. BAN. 1993. bg. Historical events and figures on the eve of our Freedom to this day.
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  7. Web site: The creepy story of Bulgaria's first serial killer - the cruel Sokrat Kirshveng. Milena Tracheva. Fakti.bg. 4 May 2018. Bulgarian.
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