List of most recent executions by jurisdiction

This is a list of the most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. 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.

Legend

  Abolished for all crimes – 103 (53%)

  Abolished for all crimes except under exceptional/special circumstances (such as crimes committed in wartime) – 6 (3%)

  Not used in practice (under a moratorium or have not used capital punishment in at least 10 years) – 50 (26%)

  Retainers of the death penalty in law and practice – 36 (18%)

*Note – Accurate as of March 2015 when Suriname abolished capital punishment.

Africa

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Algeria	August 1993[1]	seven unnamed Islamists	terrorism	firing squad
	Angola	never used[2]
	Benin	23 September 1987[3]		murder
	Botswana	27 May 2013[4]	Orelesitse Modise Thokamolemo	murder	hanging
	Burkina Faso	1988[3]		murder
	Burundi	2000[5]	2 soldiers	murder
	Cameroon	January 1997[6]	unnamed man		hanging
	Cape Verde	none since independence on 5 July 1975[3]
	Central African Republic	1981[7]
	Chad	29 August 2015[8]	Mahamat Mustapha and nine unnamed men	terrorism	firearm
	Comoros	1997[9]
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9 January 2006[10]	unnamed soldier	murder	firearm
	Congo	October 1982[11]	2 men	murder	firing squad
	Ivory Coast	none since independence on 7 August 1960[3]
	Djibouti	none since independence on 27 June 1977[12]
	Egypt	17 May 2015[13]	six unnamed men	terrorist murders	hanging
	Equatorial Guinea	21 August 2010[14]	Jose Abeso Nsue, Manuel Ndong Anseme, Alipio Ndong Asumu, and Jacinto Micha Obiang	terrorism and treason	firearm
	Eritrea
	Ethiopia	6 August 2007[15]	Major Tsehaye Woldesellasie	murder	firearm
	Gabon	1981[16]			firing squad
	Gambia	24 August 2012[17][18]	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[6]	12 men	murder and robbery	firearm
	Guinea	21 April 2001[3][19]	3 people	robbery	firearm
	Guinea-Bissau	1986[20]
	Kenya	9 July 1987[6]	Hezekiah Ochuka and Pancras Oteyo Okumu	treason	hanging
	Lesotho	1984[6]	6 people	treason
	Liberia	November 1995[3]	7 commanders of the Conseil de paix au Libéria	war crimes	firearm
	Libya	30 May 2010[21]	18 unnamed men	murder	firearm
	Madagascar	none since independence on 26 June 1960[22]
	Malawi	26 September 1992[6][23]			hanging
	Mali	21 August 1980[3][24]	Mamadou Keita and Karuba Coulibaly	murder	firearm
	Mauritania	1987[3]	3 armed forces officers	treason	firing squad
	Mauritius	10 October 1987[6]	Eshan Nayeck	murder	hanging
	Morocco	1993[25]	Mohammed Tabet	rape	firing squad
	Mozambique	May 1986[6]
	Namibia	May 1988[6]	Sagarias Ariseb	murder	hanging
	Niger	1976[3]	Bayéré Moussa, Sidi Mohamed, and Ahmed Mouddour	treason
	Nigeria	24 June 2013[26]	Chima Ejiofor, Daniel Nsofor, Osarenmwinda Aiguokhan, and Richard Igagu	murder and armed robbery	hanging
	Rwanda	24 April 1998[27]	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[2]
	Senegal	15 June 1967[28][29]	Moustapha Lô	treason (attempted murder of the president)	firing squad
	Seychelles	none since independence on 29 June 1976[2]
	Sierra Leone	19 October 1998[6]	24 soldiers (23 men, 1 woman)	high treason	public firing squad
	Somalia	11 April 2016[30]	Hassan Hanafi Haji	murder	shooting by firearm
	Somaliland	17 January 2016[31]	Muna Mohamed Abdilahi and Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Abdule Hasan	murder	shooting by firearm
	South Africa	14 November 1989[6]	Solomon Ngobeni	murder	hanging
	Bophuthatswana	13 December 1990[6][32]	Alpheus Sekoboane	murder	hanging
	Ciskei
	Transkei
	Venda	31 January 1991[6]	John Tsakani Chauke		hanging
	South Sudan	August 2012[33]	two unnamed men		hanging
	Sudan	14 September 2014[34]	Ahmed Mohamed Adam and Idris Bahar	terrorism murder	hanging
	Swaziland	2 July 1983[6]	Philippa Mdluli	murder	hanging
	Tanzania	October 1994[6]	7 unnamed men, 1 unnamed woman
	Togo	1978[3]	M. Adjata Koffi	murder
	Tunisia	1991[35]	Jihad Matiki	murder and terrorism	hanging
	Uganda	3 March 2003[6]	Richard Wigiri, Kambacho Ssenyonji, and Alfred Okech	murder	hanging
	Zambia	October 1997[6]	Abraham Kasongo, Nelson Ngindano, Dennis Chembe, Robert Mulumbi, David Kapunga, John Gombo, Joe Chilada and Christopher Oldfield	murder	hanging
	Zimbabwe	13 June 2003[6]	Stephen Chidhumo, Elias Chauke, William Mukurugunye, and John Nyamazana	murder	hanging

Asia

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Afghanistan	13 April 2015[36]	"Muhib" and "Ghaznawi"	kidnapping	hanging
	Armenia	30 August 1991[37]	unnamed man	murder	single firearm
	Azerbaijan	1992[38]
	Bahrain	8 July 2010[39]	Jassim Abdulmanan	murder	firearm
	Bangladesh	7 January 2016[31]	Safayet Hossain Habib, Anwar Hossain, and Rashedul Islam Jhantu	terrorism	hanging
	Bhutan	1964[40]
	Brunei	none since independence on 1 January 1984[6]
	Cambodia	1989
	China	28 January 2016[31]	Hasan Yusufov	drug offences	lethal injection
	Timor-Leste	none since independence on 20 May 2002[2]
	Hong Kong	16 November 1966[41][42]	Wong Kai Kei[43]	robbery-murder	hanging
	India	30 July 2015[44]	Yakub Memon	terrorism	hanging
	Indonesia	29 April 2015[36][45]	Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, Martin Anderson, Zainal Abidin bin Mahmud Badarudin, Andrew Chan, Rodrigo Gularte, Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Okwudili Oyatanze, and Myuran Sukumaran	drug offences	firing squad
	Iran	28 April 2016[30]	Mehdi Bagherzadeh and Esmaeil Tanabi	drug offences	hanging
	Iraq	6 March 2016[46]	Abdullah Mahmous Sydat and 19 unnamed men	terrorism	hanging
	Israel	31 May 1962	Adolf Eichmann	crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people	hanging
	Japan	25 March 2016[46]	Yasutoshi Kamata and Junko Yoshida	murder	hanging
	Jordan	4 February 2015[47][48]	Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouli	terrorism	hanging
	Kazakhstan	2003
	North Korea	12 December 2013[49][50]	Jang Sung-taek and seven unnamed men	treason	firing squad
	South Korea	31 December 1997[51]	23 people		hanging
	Kuwait	18 June 2013[4]	Ahmadi Abdulsalam Hajjaj Al-Saadi	murder and multiple child rapes	hanging
	Kyrgyzstan	none since independence on 25 December 1991
	Laos	1989[52]
	Lebanon	17 January 2004[53]	three men	murder	hanging
	Macau
	Malaysia	25 March 2016[46]	Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu, Ramesh Jayakumar, and Sasivarnam Jayakumar	murder	hanging
	Maldives	none since independence on 26 July 1965[6]
	Mongolia	2005[54]
	Myanmar	13 March 2016[46]	Yan Lu and Li Jian Guo	murder	firearm
	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	never used
	Nepal	1979[55]
	Oman	2007[56]
	Pakistan	28 April 2016[30]	Ali Raza Khanzada and Farhad Said Muhammad	murder	hanging
	Palestine	20 July 2015[44]	Muhammad Shtiwi	treason	firearm
	Philippines	4 January 2000[57]	Alex Bartolome	child rape	lethal injection
	Qatar	10 March 2003[58]	Arun Abraham	murder	firing squad[59]
	Saudi Arabia	28 April 2016[30]	Mohammed Abu Zayed	drug offences	public beheading by sword
	Singapore	17 April 2015[36]	Muhammad bin Kadar	murder	hanging
	Sri Lanka	23 June 1976[6]	Chardradasa Jayasinghe	murder	hanging
	Syria	25 October 2007[60]	Ridhwan Abdulqadr Hassan Mohammed, Kheiro Khalif al-Fares, Abdulhayi Feisal Abdulhayi, Saleh Boussef Mahmoud, and Hassan Hamed Khalouf	murder	public hanging
	Taiwan	5 June 2015[61]	Cheng Chin-wen, Huang Chu-wan, Wang Hsiu-fang, Wang Yu-lung, Wang Chun-chin, and Tsao Tian-shou	murder	firearm
	Tajikistan	April 2004[62]	Rachabmurod Chumayev, Umed Idiyev, Akbar Radzshabov, and Mukharam Fatkhulloyev	mass murder	firing squad
	Thailand	24 August 2009[63]	Bundit Jaroenwanit and Jirawat Poompreuk	drug offences	lethal injection
	Turkmenistan	1997[2]
	United Arab Emirates	13 July 2015[44]	Ala'a Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi	murder	firearm
	Uzbekistan	10 August 2004[37] (last known)	Azizbek Karimov and Yusuf Zhumayev		single firearm
	Vietnam	22 July 2014[64]	Nguyen Duc Nghia and two unnamed men	murder	lethal injection
	Yemen	9 March 2013[65]	Mohammed Haza'a	murder	firearm

Europe

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Albania	29 June 1995[37]		murder	hanging
	Andorra	18 October 1943[37][66]	Pere Areny	murder	firing squad
	Austria	24 March 1950[37]	Johann Trnka	murder	hanging
	Belarus	3 November 2014[67]	Alyaksandr Hrunou	murder	firearm
	Belgium	9 August 1950[37]	Philipp Schmitt	war crimes	firing squad
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1975[37] (as a republic of Yugoslavia)
	Bulgaria	4 November 1989[37]		murder	firing squad
	Croatia	February 1987 (as a republic of Yugoslavia)[37]		murder	firing squad
	Cyprus	13 June 1962[37]	Hambis Zacharia, Michael Hiletikos and Lazaris Demetriou	murder	hanging
	Czech Republic	2 February 1989[37] (as a republic of Czechoslovakia)	Vladimír Lulek	murder	hanging
	Denmark	June 1950[37]	Ib Birkedal Hansen	war crimes	firing squad
	Estonia	11 September 1991[37]	Rein Oruste	murder	single firearm
	Finland	1944[37]		war crimes	firing squad
	France	10 September 1977[37]	Hamida Djandoubi	torture murder	beheading by guillotine
	Georgia	1995[37]		murder	single firearm
	East Germany	26 June 1981[37]	Werner Teske	treason	single firearm
	Germany	18 February 1949[37][68]	Richard Schuh	murder	beheading by guillotine
	Gibraltar	11 January 1944[37]	Luis Lopez Corden-Cuenca and Jose Martin Munoz	war crimes	hanging
	Greece	25 August 1972[37]	Vassils Lymberis	murder	firing squad
	Guernsey	10 February 1854[37]	John Tapner	murder	hanging
	Hungary	31 May 1988[37]	Vadász Ernő	torture murder	hanging
	Iceland	none since independence in 1944[69]
	Ireland	20 April 1954[37]	Michael Manning	murder	hanging
	Italy	4 March 1947[37]	Giovanni D'Ignoti, Giovanni Puleo, and Francesco La Barbero	murder	firing squad
	Jersey	9 October 1959[37]	Francis Joseph Huchet	murder	hanging
	Kosovo	none since disputed independence in 2008
	Latvia	January 1996[37]	Rolans Bertmanus-Lackeus	murder	single firearm
	Liechtenstein	26 February 1785[37]	Barbara Erni	theft	beheading
	Lithuania	12 July 1995[37]	Boris Dekanidze	murder	single firearm
	Luxembourg	24 February 1949[37]		treason	firing squad
	Macedonia	1988[37] (as a republic of Yugoslavia)		murder	firing squad
	Malta	5 July 1943[37]	Karmnu Zammit and Guiseppi Zammit	murder	hanging
	Isle of Man	1 August 1872[37]	John Kewish	patricide	hanging
	Moldova	none since independence[2]
	Monaco	1847[37]		murder	beheading by guillotine
	Montenegro	none since independence
	Netherlands	21 March 1952[37]	W. A. Albrecht	war crimes	firing squad
	Norway	28 August 1948[37]	Ragnar Skancke	treason	firing squad
	Poland	21 April 1988[37]	Stanisław Czabański	murder	hanging
	Portugal	22 April 1846[37]		murder	hanging
	Romania	25 December 1989[37]	Nicolae Ceauşescu and Elena Ceauşescu	genocide, crimes against the state	firing squad
	Russia	2 August 1996[37]	Sergey Golovkin	murder	single firearm
	San Marino	1468[37]			hanging
	Serbia	15 February 1992[37][70]	Johan Drozdek[70]	murder	firing squad
	Slovakia	8 June 1989[37] (as a republic of Czechoslovakia)	Štefan Svitek	murder	hanging
	Slovenia	1957[37] (as a republic of Yugoslavia)		murder	hanging
	South Ossetia	never used
	Spain	27 September 1975[37]	José Humberto Francisco Baena Alonso, Ramón García Sanz, José Luis Sánchez-Bravo Sollas, Juan Paredes Manotas and Angel Otaegui Echevarría	murder	firing squad
	Sweden	23 November 1910[37]	Johan Alfred Andersson Ander	murder	beheading by guillotine
	Switzerland	7 December 1944[37]	Hermann Grimm and Walter Laubscher[71] Hans Vollenweider (last civilian executed)	treason	firing squad beheading by guillotine (civilian)
	Transnistria	never used
	Turkey	25 October 1984[37]	Hidir Aslan	murder	hanging
	Northern Cyprus	never used
	Ukraine	11 March 1997[37]	unnamed man	murder	single firearm
	United Kingdom	13 August 1964[37]	Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans	murder in the course of theft	hanging
	Vatican City	9 July 1870[37] (as the Papal States) (never used as Vatican City, established 11 February 1929)[72]	Agabito Bellomo	murder	beheading by guillotine

North America and Caribbean

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Antigua and Barbuda	2 February 1991[6]	Tyrone Nicholas	murder	hanging
	Bahamas	6 January 2000[6]	David Mitchell	murder	hanging
	Barbados	10 October 1984[6]	Noel Jordan, Melvin Inniss, and Errol Farrell		hanging
	Belize	19 June 1985[6]	Kent Bowers	murder	hanging
	Bermuda	3 December 1977[6]	Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn	murder	hanging
	Canada	11 December 1962[6]	Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas	murder	hanging
	Costa Rica	1859
	Cuba	11 April 2003[73]	3 men	ferry hijacking (with intent of sailing to Florida)	firing squad
	Dominica	8 August 1986[6]	Frederick Newton	murder resulting from attempted coup	hanging
	Dominican Republic	1966
	El Salvador	1973[74]
	Grenada	17 October 1978[6]	Charles Ferguson	murder	hanging
	Guatemala	20 June 2000[75]	Tomás Cerrate Hernández and Luis Amílcar Cetino Pérez	murder	lethal injection
	Haiti	1972[76]
	Honduras	1940[77]
	Jamaica	18 February 1988[6]	Nathan Foster and Stanford Dinnal	murder	hanging
	Mexico	1961[78]	Isaías Constante Laureano	murder	firing squad
	Nicaragua	1930[79]
	Panama	1903[80]
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	19 December 2008[81]	Charles Laplace	murder	hanging
	Saint Lucia	17 October 1995[6]	Joseph Solomon	murder	hanging
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	13 February 1995[6]	Douglas Hamlet, Franklin Thomas, and David Thomas	murder	hanging
	Trinidad and Tobago	29 July 1999[6]	Anthony Briggs	murder	hanging

United States

#	State	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	United States Federal Government	18 March 2003	Louis Jones, Jr.	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	United States military	13 April 1961	John A. Bennett	rape and attempted murder	hanging
	Alabama	21 January 2016[31]	Christopher Eugene Brooks	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Alaska	never used[82]
	Arizona	23 July 2014[64]	Joseph Rudolph Wood III	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Arkansas	28 November 2005	Eric Nance	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[83]	Shannon M. Johnson	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Florida	7 January 2016[31]	Oscar Ray Bolin, Jr.	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Georgia	27 April 2016[30]	Daniel Anthony Lucas	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Hawaii	never used
	Idaho	12 June 2012[84]	Richard Albert Leavitt	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Illinois	17 March 1999	Andrew Kokoraleis	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Indiana	11 December 2009[85]	Matthew Eric Wrinkles	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Iowa	6 September 1962[86]	Charles A. Kelly	murder	hanging
	Kansas	22 June 1965	George York and James Latham	murder	hanging
	Kentucky	21 November 2008[87]	Marco Allen Chapman	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Louisiana	7 January 2010[88][89]	Gerald J. Bordelon	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Maine	21 November 1885	Daniel Wilkinson	murder	hanging
	Maryland	5 December 2005	Wesley Baker	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Massachusetts	9 May 1947[90]	Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson	murder	electric chair
	Michigan	never used
	Minnesota	13 February 1906[91]	William Williams	murder	hanging
	Mississippi	20 June 2012[84]	Gary Carl Simmons, Jr.	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Missouri	1 September 2015[92]	Roderick Nunley	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Montana	11 August 2006	David Thomas Dawson	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Nebraska	2 December 1997	Robert E. Williams	aggravated murder	electric chair
	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 D. Clark	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	New York	15 August 1963	Eddie Mays	murder	electric chair
	North Carolina	18 August 2006	Samuel Russell Flippen	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	North Dakota	17 October 1905[93]	John Rooney	murder	hanging
	Ohio	16 January 2014[94]	Dennis B. McGuire	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Oklahoma	15 January 2015[95]	Charles Frederick Warner	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Oregon	16 May 1997	Harry Charles Moore	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Pennsylvania	6 July 1999	Gary M. Heidnik	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Rhode Island	14 February 1845	John Gordon	murder	hanging
	South Carolina	6 May 2011[96]	Jeffrey Brian Motts	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	South Dakota	30 October 2012[97]	Donald Eugene Moeller	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Tennessee	2 December 2009[98][99]	Cecil J. Johnson, Jr.	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Texas	6 April 2016[30]	Pablo Lucio Vasquez	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Utah	18 June 2010[89][100]	Ronnie Lee Gardner	aggravated murder	firing squad
	Vermont	8 December 1954	Donald DeMag	murder	electric chair
	Virginia	1 October 2015[101]	Alfredo Rolando Prieto	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Washington	10 September 2010[89][102]	Cal Coburn Brown	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Washington, D.C.	26 April 1957	Robert Carter	murder	electric chair
	West Virginia	3 April 1959	Elmer Brunner	aggravated murder	electric chair
	Wisconsin	21 August 1851	John McCaffary	murder	hanging
	Wyoming	22 January 1992	Mark Hopkinson	aggravated murder	lethal injection

Oceania

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Cook Islands	none since self-government on 4 August 1965
	Fiji	none since independence on 10 October 1970[6]
	Kiribati	none since independence on 12 July 1979[6]
	Marshall Islands	none since independence on 21 October 1986[103]
	F.S. Micronesia	none since independence on 3 November 1986[104]
	Niue	never used
	Nauru	none since independence on 31 January 1968[6]
	New Zealand	17 February 1957[6]	Walter James Bolton	murder	hanging
	Palau	none since independence on 1 October 1994[2]
	Papua New Guinea	none since independence on 16 September 1975[6][105]
	Samoa	none since independence on 1 January 1962[6]
	Solomon Islands	none since independence on 7 July 1978[6]
	Tonga	7 September 1982[6]	Haloti Sole, Livingi Sole, and Fili Esau	murder	hanging
	Tuvalu	none since independence on 1 October 1978[6]
	Vanuatu	none since independence on 30 July 1980[6]

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[6]	John Kelly	murder	hanging
	Northern Territory	7 August 1952[6]	Jaroslav Koci and Jan Novotny	murder	hanging
	Queensland	22 September 1913[6]	Ernest Austin	murder	hanging
	South Australia	24 November 1964[6]	Glen Sabre Valance	murder	hanging
	Tasmania	14 February 1946[6]	Frederick Thompson	murder	hanging
	Victoria	3 February 1967[6]	Ronald Ryan	murder	hanging
	Western Australia	26 October 1964	Eric Edgar Cooke	murder	hanging

South America

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Argentina	1916[106]
	Bolivia	1974[107]
	Brazil	28 April 1876[108]	Francisco	murder	hanging
	Chile	1985[109]	Carlos Topp Collins and Jorge Sagredo	murder	firearm
	Colombia	1909[110]
	Ecuador	1884[111]
	Guyana	August 1997[6]	Michael Archer and Peter Adams	murder	hanging
	Paraguay	1928[112]
	Peru	1979[113]
	Suriname	13 March 1982[114][115]	Wilfred Hawker	treason	firing squad
	Uruguay	1905[116]
	Venezuela	never used

See also

• Use of capital punishment by nation

References

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