List of most recent executions by jurisdiction

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Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 countries, with 144 countries having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions performed in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.

Africa[]

# Country Last execution date Name Crime Method
 Algeria August 1993[1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists terrorism firing squad
 Angola 1977[2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason firing squad
 Benin 23 September 1987[3] murder
 Bophuthatswana 13 December 1990[4][5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder hanging
 Botswana 11 June 2021[6] Phemelo Botogeleng murder hanging
 Burkina Faso 1988[3] murder
 Burundi 2000[7] 2 soldiers murder
 Cameroon January 1997[4] unnamed man hanging
 Cape Verde none since independence on 5 July 1975[3]
 Central African Republic January 1981[8] six unnamed officials firing squad
 Chad 29 August 2015[9] Mahamat Mustapha and nine unnamed men terrorism firearm
 Ciskei
 Comoros 1997[10]
 Congo October 1982[11] 2 men murder firing squad
 Djibouti none since independence on 27 June 1977[12]
 DR Congo 2003[13] unnamed soldier firearm
 Egypt 18 August 2021[14] R. murder hanging
 Equatorial Guinea January 2014[15] 9 unnamed people firearm
 Eritrea
 Eswatini 2 July 1983[4] Philippa Mdluli murder hanging
 Ethiopia 6 August 2007[16] Major Tsehaye Woldesellasie murder firearm
 Gabon 11 August 1985[17] Alexandre Mandja Ngokouta coup attempt firing squad
 Gambia 24 August 2012[18][19] Lamin B. Darboe, Alieu Bah, Lamin Jarju, Dawda Bojang, Abubacarr Yarboi, Malang Sonko, Lamin F. Jammeh, Gibril Bah and Tabara Samba treason and murder firearm
 Ghana 12 July 1993[4] 12 men murder and robbery firearm
 Guinea 21 April 2001[3][20] 3 people robbery firearm
 Guinea-Bissau 18 July 1986[21] Paulo Correia, Viriato Rodrigues Pā, Benhancaren Na Tchanda, Pedro Ramos, Braima Bangura and N'Bunhe Sanbu coup attempt firearm
 Ivory Coast none since independence on 7 August 1960[3]
 Kenya 9 July 1987[4] Hezekiah Ochuka and treason hanging
 Lesotho 1995[22] hanging
 Liberia 2000[23] hanging
 Libya 30 May 2010[24] 18 unnamed men murder firearm
 Madagascar none since independence on 26 June 1960[25]
 Malawi 26 September 1992[4][26] hanging
 Mali 21 August 1980[3][27] Mamadou Keita and Karuba Coulibaly murder firearm
 Mauritania 1987[3] 3 armed forces officers treason firing squad
 Mauritius 10 October 1987[4] Eshan Nayeck murder hanging
 Morocco 9 August 1993[28] Mohammed Tabet rape firing squad
 Mozambique May 1986[4]
 Namibia May 1988[4] Sagarias Ariseb murder hanging
 Niger 1976[3] Bayéré Moussa, Sidi Mohamed, and Ahmed Mouddour treason
 Nigeria 23 December 2016[29] Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene, and Mark Omosowhota murder and armed robbery hanging
 Rwanda 24 April 1998[30] Froduald Karamira and at least 21 others genocide firing squad
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic 1976
 São Tomé and Príncipe none since independence on 12 July 1975[31]
 Senegal 15 June 1967[32][33] Moustapha Lô treason (attempted murder of the president) firing squad
 Seychelles none since independence on 29 June 1976[31]
 Sierra Leone 19 October 1998[4] 24 soldiers (23 men, 1 woman) high treason public firing squad
 Somalia 15 July 2021[14] Hussein Adan Ali child rape firearm
 Somaliland 17 January 2016[34] Muna Mohamed Abdilahi and Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Abdule Hasan murder shooting by firearm
 South Africa 14 November 1989[4] Solomon Ngobeni murder hanging
 South Sudan 2020[35]
 Sudan 9 February 2021[36] Eliza Aban Othu murder hanging
 Tanzania October 1994[4] 7 unnamed men, 1 unnamed woman
 Togo 1978[3] M. Adjata Koffi murder
 Transkei
 Tunisia 1991[37] Nacer Damouji murder hanging
 Uganda 2005[38] firing squad
 Venda 31 January 1991[4] John Tsakani Chauke hanging
 Zambia October 1997[4] Abraham Kasongo, Nelson Ngindano, Dennis Chembe, Robert Mulumbi, David Kapunga, John Gombo, Joe Chilada and Christopher Oldfield murder hanging
 Zimbabwe 22 July 2005[39] hanging

Americas[]

# Country Last execution date Name Crime Method
 Antigua and Barbuda 2 February 1991[4] murder hanging
 Argentina 12 June 1956[40] Juan José Valle treason firing squad
 Bahamas 6 January 2000[4] David Mitchell murder hanging
 Barbados 10 October 1984[4] , , and hanging
 Belize 19 June 1985[4] Kent Bowers murder hanging
 Bermuda 3 December 1977[4] Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn murder hanging
 Bolivia 30 August 1973[41] murder shooting
 Brazil 28 April 1876[42] Francisco murder hanging
 Canada 11 December 1962[4] Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas capital murder hanging
 Chile 29 January 1985[43] Carlos Topp Collins and Jorge Sagredo murder firearm
 Colombia 5 May 1907[44] shooting
 Costa Rica 1859
 Cuba 11 April 2003[45][46] Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla Garcia and Jorge Luis Martinez Isaac Hijacking a ferry boat (with intent of sailing to Florida) firing squad
 Dominica 8 August 1986[4] Frederick Newton murder resulting from attempted coup hanging
 Dominican Republic 1966
 Ecuador 1884[47]
 El Salvador 1973[48]
 Grenada 17 October 1978[4] murder hanging
 Guatemala 20 June 2000[49] and murder lethal injection
 Guyana August 1997[4] and murder hanging
 Haiti 1972[50]
 Honduras 1940[51]
 Jamaica 18 February 1988[4] and murder hanging
 Mexico 1961[52] murder firing squad
 Nicaragua 1930[53]
 Panama 1903[54]
 Paraguay 1 December 1917[55] multiple murders shooting
 Peru 20 January 1979[56] espionage firing squad
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 19 December 2008[57] Charles Laplace murder hanging
 Saint Lucia 17 October 1995[4] Joseph Solomon murder hanging
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13 February 1995[4] Douglas Hamlet, Franklin Thomas, and David Thomas murder hanging
 Suriname 13 March 1982[58][59] Wilfred Hawker treason firing squad
 Trinidad and Tobago 28 July 1999[4] [4] murder hanging
 Uruguay 25 September 1902[60] multiple murders shooting
 Venezuela never used

United States[]

Main article: Capital punishment in the United States
# Jurisdiction Last execution date Name Crime Method
 United States Federal Government 16 January 2021 Dustin John Higgs aggravated murder lethal injection
 United States military 13 April 1961 John A. Bennett child rape and attempted murder hanging
 Alabama 5 March 2020 Nathaniel Woods capital murder lethal injection
 Alaska Never used[61]
 American Samoa 24 November 1939[62] Imoa of Fagatogo murder hanging
 Arizona 23 July 2014[63] Joseph Rudolph Wood III aggravated murder lethal injection
 Arkansas 27 April 2017 Kenneth Dewayne Williams aggravated murder lethal injection
 California 17 January 2006 Clarence Ray Allen aggravated murder lethal injection
 Colorado 13 October 1997 Gary Lee Davis aggravated murder lethal injection
 Connecticut 13 May 2005 Michael Bruce Ross aggravated murder lethal injection
 Delaware 20 April 2012[64] Shannon M. Johnson aggravated murder lethal injection
 Florida 22 August 2019 Gary Ray Bowles aggravated murder lethal injection
 Georgia 29 January 2020 Donnie Cleveland Lance aggravated murder lethal injection
 Hawaii Never used
 Idaho 12 June 2012[65] Richard Albert Leavitt aggravated murder lethal injection
 Illinois 17 March 1999 Andrew Kokoraleis aggravated murder lethal injection
 Indiana 11 December 2009[66] Matthew Eric Wrinkles aggravated murder lethal injection
 Iowa 6 September 1962[67] Charles A. Kelly murder hanging
 Kansas 22 June 1965 George York and James Latham murder hanging
 Kentucky 21 November 2008[68] Marco Allen Chapman aggravated murder lethal injection
 Louisiana 7 January 2010[69][70] Gerald James Bordelon aggravated murder lethal injection
 Maine 21 November 1885 Daniel Wilkinson murder hanging
 Maryland 5 December 2005 Wesley Eugene Baker aggravated murder lethal injection
 Massachusetts 9 May 1947[71] Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson murder electric chair
 Michigan Never used
 Minnesota 13 February 1906[72] William Williams murder hanging
 Mississippi 20 June 2012[65] Gary Carl Simmons, Jr. aggravated murder lethal injection
 Missouri 19 May 2020 Walter Barton aggravated murder lethal injection
 Montana 11 August 2006 David Thomas Dawson aggravated murder lethal injection
 Nebraska 14 August 2018 Carey Dean Moore aggravated murder lethal injection
 Nevada 26 April 2006 Daryl Linnie Mack aggravated murder lethal injection
 New Hampshire 14 July 1939 Howard Long murder hanging
 New Jersey 22 January 1963 Ralph Hudson murder electric chair
 New Mexico 6 November 2001 Terry Douglas Clark aggravated murder lethal injection
 New York 15 August 1963 Eddie Lee Mays murder electric chair
 North Carolina 18 August 2006 Samuel Russell Flippen aggravated murder lethal injection
 North Dakota 17 October 1905[73] John Rooney murder hanging
 Ohio 18 July 2018 Robert J. Van Hook aggravated murder lethal injection
 Oklahoma 15 January 2015[74] Charles Frederick Warner aggravated murder lethal injection
 Oregon 16 May 1997 Harry Charles Moore aggravated murder lethal injection
 Pennsylvania 6 July 1999 Gary Michael Heidnik aggravated murder lethal injection
 Puerto Rico 15 September 1927 Pascual Ramos murder hanging
 Rhode Island 14 February 1845 John Gordon murder hanging
 South Carolina 6 May 2011[75] Jeffrey Brian Motts aggravated murder lethal injection
 South Dakota 4 November 2019[76] Charles Russell Rhines aggravated murder lethal injection
 Tennessee 20 February 2020 Nicholas Todd Sutton aggravated murder electric chair
 Texas 30 June 2021 John William Hummel aggravated murder lethal injection
 Utah 18 June 2010[70][77] Ronnie Lee Gardner aggravated murder firing squad
 Vermont 8 December 1954 Donald DeMag murder electric chair
 Virginia 6 July 2017 William Charles Morva aggravated murder lethal injection
 Washington 10 September 2010[70][78] Cal Coburn Brown aggravated murder lethal injection
 Washington, D.C. 26 April 1957[79] Robert E. Carter murder electric chair
 West Virginia 3 April 1959 Elmer Bruner aggravated murder electric chair
 Wisconsin 21 August 1851 John McCaffary murder hanging
 Wyoming 22 January 1992 Mark Allen Hopkinson aggravated murder lethal injection

Asia[]

# Country Last execution date Name Crime Method
 Afghanistan 28 January 2018[14] Muhammad Aref, Shaheen Long, and Dadan Long murder hanging
 Bahrain 27 July 2019[80] Ali Mohammed al-Arab, Ahmad Issa al-Mulla and

1 unnamed man

terrorism firing squad
 Bangladesh 15 July 2021[14] Asaduzzaman Panir[81] terrorism hanging
 Bhutan 1974[82]
 Brunei none since independence on 1 January 1984[4]
 Cambodia 1989
 China 9 September 2021[83] Yang Henghui murder lethal injection
 East Timor none since independence on 20 May 2002[31]
 Hong Kong 16 November 1966[84][85] Wong Kai Kei[86] robbery-murder hanging
 India 20 March 2020[87] Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma gang rape and murder hanging
 Indonesia 29 July 2016[88] Freddy Budiman, Seck Osmane, Michael Titus Igweh, and Humphrey Ejike drug offences firing squad
 Iran 27 August 2021[89] Mansour Kahrazehi murder hanging
 Iraq 30 August 2021[14] 3 unnamed men terrorism hanging
 Israel 31 May 1962 Adolf Eichmann crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people hanging
 Japan 26 December 2019[90] Wei Wei murder hanging
 Jordan 4 March 2017[91] 15 unnamed men murder and terrorism hanging
 Kazakhstan 2003
 Kuwait 25 January 2017[92] Nazra al-Enezi, Prince Faisal Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah, Jakatia Pawa and 4 others people murder and/or rapes hanging
 Kyrgyzstan none since independence on 25 December 1991
 Laos 1989[93]
 Lebanon 17 January 2004[94] three unnamed men murder hanging
 Macau 19th century[95]
 Malaysia 24 May 2017[96] Yong Kar Mun and another unnamed man armed robbery / murder hanging
 Maldives none since independence on 26 July 1965[4]
 Mongolia 2008[97][98]
 Myanmar 14 May 2020 (in Wa State)[99] Zheng Zeyong, Ge Caide and Yang Liu robbery-murder firearm
   Nepal 1979[100]
 North Korea 2 March 2021[101] 3 men and 1 woman distributing “” public firing squad
 Oman 30 December 2020[35] 3 men and 1 woman firearm
 Pakistan 24 November 2019[102] Brigadier Raja Rizwan espionage and high treason hanging
 Palestine 25 May 2017[103] Ashraf Abu Leila, Hisham al-Aloul and Abdallah al-Nashar murder and treason public hanging and firing squad
 Philippines 4 January 2000[104] child rape lethal injection
 Qatar 21 May 2020[105] Anil Chaudhary murder firing squad
 Saudi Arabia 25 August 2021[106] Mohammed Salim Ahmed al-Sharari murder public beheading
 Singapore 22 November 2019[80] Abd Helmi Ab Halim drug offences hanging
 South Korea 31 December 1997[107] 23 criminals including Kim Yong-je, Lee Sang-su, Lee Young-gil murder, terrorism hanging
 Sri Lanka 23 June 1976[4] murder hanging
 Syria 2020[35] hanging
 Taiwan 1 April 2020[108] Weng Jen-hsien arson / murder firearm
 Tajikistan April 2004[109] , , , and mass murder firing squad
 Thailand 18 June 2018[110] Thirasak Longchi robbery murder lethal injection
 Turkmenistan 1997[31]
 United Arab Emirates 23 November 2017[111] Nida Eisa Abdullah rape and murder of child firearm
 Uzbekistan 1 March 2005[112] Talipkhojaev Akhrorkhoja Akbarkhojayevich single firearm
 Vietnam 14 July 2020[113] Nguyen Van Dung murder lethal injection
 Yemen 16 June 2021[14] Abdullah Ali al-Mukahali and Mohammed Abdullah Arman rape and murder execution by shooting

Europe[]

# Country Last execution date Name Crime Method
 Albania 29 June 1995[citation needed] murder hanging
 Andorra 18 October 1943[114][115] Pere Areny murder firing squad
 Armenia 30 August 1991[114] unnamed man murder single firearm
 Austria 24 March 1950[114] Johann Trnka murder hanging
 Azerbaijan 1993[116] single firearm
 Belarus 17 December 2019[117] Alexander Osipovich aggravated murder firearm
 Belgium 9 August 1950[114] Philipp Schmitt war crimes firing squad
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1977 (as a republic of Yugoslavia) Dušan Prodić[118] murder firing squad
 Bulgaria 4 November 1989[114] Georgi Alinski[119] sabotage firing squad
 Croatia 29 January 1987 (as a republic of Yugoslavia)[114] Dušan Kosić[120] murder firing squad
 Cyprus 13 June 1962[114] Hambis Zacharia, Michael Hiletikos and Lazaris Demetriou murder hanging
 Czech Republic 2 February 1989[114] (as a republic of Czechoslovakia) Vladimír Lulek murder hanging
 Denmark June 1950[114] Ib Birkedal Hansen war crimes firing squad
 East Germany 26 June 1981[114] Werner Teske treason single firearm
 Estonia 11 September 1991[114] Rein Oruste murder single firearm
 Finland September 1944[114] war crimes firing squad
 France 10 September 1977[114] Hamida Djandoubi torture murder beheading by guillotine
 Georgia 1995[114] murder single firearm
 Germany 18 February 1949[114][121]
11 May 1949
(West Berlin) 		murder beheading by guillotine
 Gibraltar 11 January 1944[114] and treason/sabotage hanging
 Greece 25 August 1972[114] murder firing squad
 Guernsey 10 February 1854[114] John Tapner murder hanging
 Hungary 14 July 1988[114] torture murder hanging
 Iceland none since independence in 1944[122]
 Ireland 20 April 1954[114] Michael Manning murder hanging
 Isle of Man 1 August 1872[114] John Kewish patricide hanging
 Italy 5 March 1947[123] , and war crimes firing squad
 Jersey 9 October 1959[114] Francis Joseph Huchet murder hanging
 Kosovo 26 April 1984 (as a province of Yugoslavia) Ferat Muja[124] murder firing squad
 Latvia 26 January 1996[114] murder single firearm
 Liechtenstein 26 February 1785[114] Barbara Erni theft public beheading
 Lithuania 12 July 1995[114] Boris Dekanidze murder single firearm
 Luxembourg 24 February 1949[114] treason firing squad
 Malta 5 July 1943[114] and murder hanging
 Moldova none since independence[31]
 Monaco 1847[114] murder beheading by guillotine
 Montenegro 29 January 1981 (as a republic of Yugoslavia) Dragiša Ristić[125] murder firing squad
 Netherlands 21 March 1952[114] , war crimes firing squad
 Northern Cyprus never used
 North Macedonia 29 March 1988 (as a republic of Yugoslavia) Malje Zeqiri[126] murder and rape firing squad
 Norway 28 August 1948[114] Ragnar Skancke treason firing squad
 Poland 21 April 1988[114] Andrzej Czabański murder hanging
 Portugal 16 September 1917[114] João Augusto Ferreira de Almeida desertion firing squad
 Republic of Artsakh never used
 Romania 25 December 1989[114] Nicolae Ceauşescu and Elena Ceauşescu genocide, crimes against the state firing squad
 Russia 1999 (in Chechnya)[127] single firearm
 San Marino 1468[114] or 1667[128] hanging
 Serbia 15 February 1992 (as a republic of Yugoslavia)[114][129] [129] murder firing squad
 Slovakia 8 June 1989[114] (as a republic of Czechoslovakia) Štefan Svitek murder hanging
 Slovenia 30 October 1959 (as a republic of Yugoslavia) [130] murder firing squad
 South Ossetia never used
 Spain 27 September 1975[114]  [es],  [es],  [es],  [es] and  [es] murder firing squad
 Sweden 23 November 1910[114] Johan Alfred Andersson Ander murder beheading by guillotine
  Switzerland 7 December 1944[114] Hermann Grimm and Walter Laubscher[131] treason firing squad
 Transnistria never used
 Turkey 25 October 1984[114] Hidir Aslan murder hanging
 Ukraine 11 March 1997[114] unnamed man murder single firearm
 United Kingdom 13 August 1964[114] Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans capital murder hanging
  Vatican City 9 July 1870[114] (as the Papal States) (never used as Vatican City, established 11 February 1929)[132] murder beheading by guillotine


Oceania[]

# Country Last execution date Name Crime Method
 Cook Islands none since self-government on 4 August 1965
 Micronesia none since independence on 3 November 1986[133]
 Fiji none since independence on 10 October 1970[4]
 Kiribati none since independence on 12 July 1979[4]
 Marshall Islands none since independence on 21 October 1986[134]
 Nauru none since independence on 31 January 1968[4]
 New Zealand 17 February 1957[4] Walter James Bolton murder hanging
 Niue never used
 Palau none since independence on 1 October 1994[31]
 Papua New Guinea none since independence on 16 September 1975[4][135]
 Western Samoa none since independence on 1 January 1962[4]
 Solomon Islands none since independence on 7 July 1978[4]
 Tonga 7 September 1982[4] , , and murder hanging
 Tuvalu none since independence on 1 October 1978[4]
 Vanuatu none since independence on 30 July 1980[4]

Australia[]

# State Last execution date Name Crime Method
 Government of Australia 11 June 1951 Takuma Nishimura war crimes hanging
 Australian Capital Territory never used
 New South Wales 24 August 1939[4] murder hanging
 Northern Territory 7 August 1952[4] and murder hanging
 Queensland 22 September 1913[4] Ernest Austin murder hanging
 South Australia 24 November 1964[4] Glen Sabre Valance murder hanging
 Tasmania 14 February 1946[4] murder hanging
 Victoria 3 February 1967[4] Ronald Ryan murder hanging
 Western Australia 26 October 1964 Eric Edgar Cooke murder hanging

See also[]

  • Capital punishment by country

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