During The Cold War Period
In 1952 Denmark reinstated capital punishment in the penal code for crimes committed with particular malice during war (murder, treason and denunciation, limited to offenders over the age of 21). The terms were similar to those of the 1945 penal code appendix, seeking to avoid the necessity of another law with retroactive force, should Denmark be occupied during the cold war. It was abolished again in 1978. At the same time capital punishment was abolished in military law. No people were ever sentenced under this law.
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