Natalya Kolb, 26, and her twisted friend Viktar Syarhel, 48, both lost their appeals against their sentences for the brutal 2018 murder in Belarus.
The pair had been drinking at Natalya’s apartment in Luninets in the Brest region when the child’s father Leonid, 28, came home to find his baby daughter Hanna dead.
Hanna was found in a pool of blood after being beaten and having her head removed from her body.
She had 46 separate wounds and had been killed with a kitchen knife.
Last year, Brest Regional Court ruled the murder was carried out with “particular cruelty.”
This week both the killers had their appeals thrown out by the supreme court in Belarus – the only country in Europe to still have the death penalty.
Syarhel immediately indicated that he would waive his right to seek clemency from strongman president Alexander Lukashenko.
This means the murderer will be shot in the back of the head by a Belarus state executioner.
Meanwhile Nataliya lost her appeal against a maximum jail sentence for the same killing.
She now faces 25 years in prison as only men can face capital punishment in Belarus.
Earlier Syarhel declined to appeal his death sentence but his legal team insisted on taking his case to the country’s supreme court.
In Belarus, those facing the death penalty are blindfolded, forced to kneel and shot in the back of the head.
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