Music of Lithuania Origins of Lithuanian pop music are in music of the cafes and restaurants of temporary capital of Lithuania - Kaunas in 1930s. It was called "estradinė muzika" (estrade-music), "lengvoji muzika" (light music) and the phenomena sometimes named as "mažoji scena" (the little stage). Pop music bands "Kopų balsai" "(Sounds of the dunes)" (in the beginning influenced by Juozas Tiškus orchestra), created in 1957 and band "Nerija", which started activity in 1970 became very popular in Lithuania. From 2000s on, the most popular band in Lithuania is SKAMP. Happyendless, Freaks on Floor, Ten Walls, Jurga and Leon Somov & Jazzu became
Capital punishment in Lithuania sentences. From March 1990 to December 1998, Lithuania executed seven men by shooting with a single firearm: When Lithuania declared independence in February 1918, it inherited the 1903 criminal code of the Russian Empire. The code provided for the death penalty only for crimes against the state (for example, conspiring to intervene with the imperial succession), but military law of war provided for death penalty by shooting or hanging for some 30 different crimes including banditry, robbery, rape, and premeditated murder. When Lithuania updated its statutes in January and February 1919, the duality remained: the death penalty was abolished in