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 July 7, 1990 and protocol number six of the European Convention on Human Rights came into force on October 1, 1999.
Notable executions in the 20th-century
Kingdom of Bulgaria
Executed person | Gender | Date of sentence | Date of execution | Place of execution | Crime | Method | Ref. |
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Marko Fridman | Male | 1925 | 27 May 1925 | Sofia | Communist terrorists participating in the St Nedelya Church assault | Hanging | [2] |
Petar Zadgorski | |||||||
Georgi Koev | |||||||
Georgi Mandulov | 27 June 1925 | Anton | Conspiring to aid communist activity | Firing squad | [3] | ||
Nesho Shabanov | |||||||
The Gostevi brothers | |||||||
Sokrat Kirshveng | 1937 | 14 April 1937 | Sofia | "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 | [4] | |
August Popov | 1942 | 26 June 1942 | Instigating communist rebellion; tried as part of the "Parachutist trial" | Firing squad | [5] | ||
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 | |||||||
Cvyatko Radoinov | [6] | ||||||
Anton Ivanov | 23 July 1942 | Communist revolutionaries in opposition to the Filov government | [7] | ||||
Anton Popov | [8] | ||||||
Nikola Vaptsarov | [9] | ||||||
Atanas Romanov | [10] | ||||||
Petar Bogdanov | [11] | ||||||
Georgi Minchev | [11] | ||||||
Vasil Antevski | 18 August 1942 | Participation in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia | Hanging | [12] | |||
Adalbert Antonov | 4 December 1942 | Participation in the Workers Youth League | Firing squad | [13] | |||
Yovan Basarov | 21 March 1943 | Skopje | Participation in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia | Hanging | [14] | ||
Boyan Chonos | 1943 | 13 October 1943 | Vidin | Aiding communist rebellion | [15] | ||
Ferdinand Aleksandrov | 17 December 1943 | Pleven | Firing squad | [16] | |||
Yakim Atanasov | 1944 | 1 March 1944 | Lom | Leading a communist partisan squadron | Hanging | [17] | |
Ferdinand Milanov | 1 June 1944 | Plovdiv | Aiding communist rebellion | Firing squad | [18] | ||
Yozo Tobiev | |||||||
Yordanka Chankova | Female | Eleshnitsa | Participating on the communist side during the "Battle of Batulia" | [19] | |||
Frank Thompson | Male | 10 June 1944 | Litakovo | [20] | |||
Lazar Atanasov | |||||||
Hristo Gurbov | |||||||
Ivan Harlakov | 1945 | 1945 | Sofia | Member of the Tsarist government | [21] | ||
Kiril, Prince of Preslav | 1 February 1945 | Member of the royal family and regent of Bulgaria | [22] | ||||
Nikola Mihov | Lieutenant general and regent of Bulgaria | [23] | |||||
Dobri Bozhilov | Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, supposed charges of war and financial crimes | [24] | |||||
Petar Gabrovski | Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria and lawyer | [25] | |||||
Ivan Bagrianov | Member of the Tsarist government | [26] | |||||
Rashko Atanasov | [27] | ||||||
Ivan Beshkov | [28] | ||||||
Ivan Vazov | [29] | ||||||
Dimitar Shishmanov | [30] | ||||||
Sirko Stanchev | [31] | ||||||
Aleksandar Stanishev | [32] | ||||||
Spas Ganev | [33] | ||||||
Delcho Todorov | |||||||
Nikola Stoychev | |||||||
Bogdan Filov | 2 February 1945 | Prime Minister of Bulgaria and regent of the Tsarist government | [34] | ||||
Aleksandar Staliyski | Collaboration with pro-Axis cabinet | [35] | |||||
Yordan Sevov | Member of the Tsarist government | [36] | |||||
Lyuben Stanchev | 6 March 1945 | unknown | [37] | ||||
Konstantin Lukash | 15 March 1945 | Sofia | Officer and Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army | [38] | |||
Trifon Trifonov | Member of the Tsarist government | [39] | |||||
Nicho Georgiev | 21 April 1945 | [40] | |||||
Vasil Zlatevski | September 1945 | Kyustendil | Goryanin, waging rebellion against the communist government | Hanging | [41] | ||
Docho Hristov | 26 October 1945 | unknown | Attempted rebellion against the communist government | Firing squad | [42] | ||
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Executed person | Gender | Date of sentence | Date of execution | Place of execution | Crime | Method | Ref. |
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Faik Aliev | Male | 1948 | 1948 | Nevrokop | Goryanin, waging rebellion against the communist government | Hanging | [43] |
Pavel Djidjov | 1952 | 3 October 1952 | Sofia | Catholics, subverting communist ideology | Firing squad | [44] | |
Eugene Bossilkov | 11 November 1952 | [45] | |||||
Josaphat Chichkov | [44] | ||||||
Kamen Vitchev | |||||||
Ivan-Asen Georgiev | 1963 | 4 January 1964 | Espionage on behalf of the United States | Shooting | [46] | ||
Radan Sarafov | 18 February 1968 | 18 February 1969 | Espionage on behalf of the United States, France and Albania | [47] | |||
Georgi Yordanov | 1975 | 1975 | Known 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. | [48] | |||
Zhivko Dimitrov | 1981 | 1981 | Tolbuhin | Serial killer. Murdered six people in Dobrich Province from 1975 to 1981 for money. | [49] | ||
Georgi Alinski | 1984 | 4 November 1989 | Sofia | Attempted to sabotage a lift in Borovets to prevent the country from participating in a ski championship | [1] | ||
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- 1 2 "Блажени отци-успенци Йосафат Шишков, Павел Джиджов и Камен Вичев" [Blessed Fathers of the Assumption Josaphat Shishkov, Pavel Djidjov and Kamen Vitchev] (in Bulgarian). Catholicnews.bg.
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- ↑ "Милиционер убива две касиерки и авер за 100 бона" [Militiaman kills two clerks and acquaintance for 100,000]. bgnow.eu (in Bulgarian). 2021. Archived from the original on October 31, 2022.
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