In this article, we investigate holomorphy and non vanishing of Artin L-functions for \(\Re (s) > 1/2\) . First, we show that Artin L-functions of a solvable Galois extension \(\textrm{K}/\textrm{F}\) with Galois group G are holomorphic at a point \(s_0\) by comparing the order of vanishing of \(\zeta _\textrm{K}(s)\) with \(\zeta _{\textrm{K}^{G^{(2)}}}(s)\) , where \(G^{(2)}\) is the second commutator subgroup of G. This extends a result of Foote and Kumar Murty. Finally, we derive a criterion which is equivalent to the assertion that all the poles (except for a possible pole at \(s=1\) ) and non-trivial zeros of Artin L-functions necessarily lie on the line \(\Re (s) = 1/2\) .
