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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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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
References [ ]
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