The Charter of Law of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Portugal was recognised with the European Heritage Label distinticveness on the 15^th of April 2015 and it can be found in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo.

The selection of the Law of the Abolition of the Death Penalty of 1867 as an European Heritage Label reinforces our aim to contribute to the promotion of the values of the European Citizenship, in particular Human Rights, and to build an identity based on the values of tolerance and respect for human life, as the result of an historic process in which new concepts of crime, criminals and criminal justice were born, according to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Video on the Charter of Law of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Portugal (1867), produced for the ceremony of recognition of the “European Heritage Label” that took place in Brussels on the 15^th of April 2015.