 In 1926 the prison was also approved for conducting capital punishment (by hanging).The first execution took place on 6 December 1930, when František Lukšík was hanged for committing a murder and robbery.Altogether 5 executions took place in the prison between 1930 and 1938, when the democratic First Czechoslovak Republic ceased to exist following the Munich Agreement and German, Hungarian and Polish occupation of the country's border areas.