The unicameral Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has 141 members who are elected to four-year terms.
The execution has been criticised at being carried out even as the Lithuanian parliament was debating abolition of the death penalty.
He was elected to the Lithuanian parliament.
The Lithuanian parliament voted 76-to-3 to end capital punishment.
The Lithuanian parliament had approved the new version of the law which was scheduled to be enacted on 1 March 2010.
He was rector of Vilnius University for 32 years, and served one term in the Lithuanian parliament.
The Lithuanian parliament declared the nation a sovereign state last week.
Many did not know the new Lithuanian parliament had met, or precisely what decision it had reached.
As a democratic nation, we believe this matter should be decided by the Lithuanian parliament and the Lithuanian people.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us also put this resolution on hold, at least until the end of the debate in the Lithuanian parliament.