death penalty
Ancient Greece
Last Meal Rooted in Ancient Greece
In society, mentions of the "Last Meal" or "Last Supper" refer to two quite specific events. The first is secular and refers to the last meal of the unlucky prisoners who find themselves on death row. The second is...
Crime
Stavroula Gouvousi: The First Woman Executed in Greece
The first ever woman to be executed in Greece after the court gave her the death penalty was 63-year-old Stavroula Gouvousi
Greece
August 25, 1972: The Last Execution in Greece Before Abolition of Death Penalty
On this day in 1972, 27-year-old Cretan electrician Vassilis Lymberis was executed by a firing squad for murdering his mother-in-law, his wife, and his two children. Lymberis and his accomplices burned down his family home, while 4 members of...
Crime
Golden Dawn Seeks Death For Violent Migrants
Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that has 18 seats in Parliament and has an openly anti-immigrant agenda is calling for restoration of the death penalty - for immigrants found guilty of violent crimes, although it didn't distinguish if that...
Greek News
Nikolaos Bouikidis Faces Death Penalty For Meth Smuggling in Indonesia
Greek citizen Nikolaos Bouikidis, 36, will stand trial on February 7 on charges of drug smuggling, after he tried to smuggle 4.2kg of crystal methamphetamine in the resort island of Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia last October.
Prosecutor Ketut Sujaya asked the...
Greece
Greek Team Develops Videogame for Amnesty International
Nineteen Greek game developers and members of the Hellenic Game Developers Association (HGDA) have come together to collaborate on creating a videogame for Amnesty International. The videogame aims at raising awareness about the abolition of the death penalty around...