Aggravated murder, treason and spying are capital crimes.

Aggravated murder, treason and spying are capital crimes.
The legal system incorporates Islamic law as well as French legal codes.
On his election in 1996, then president Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarin announced that people found guilty of murder could be condemned to death according to Islamic law.
The first execution since the country became independent in 1975 was carried out on September 18, 1996. Another execution was reported in 1997. No death sentences have been recorded since 1999.
Comoros made a few steps toward restoring democracy in 2002 and took one step back as well. Although elections for the president of each of the three islands - Moheli, Anjouan and Grande Comore - that make up the new federation appeared to have been largely free and fair, the poll for the executive leader of the federation was not. Former Colonel Azali Assoumani, who had seized power in 1999 on the main island, Grande Comore, won the executive presidency with 75 percent of the vote. However, he was the only candidate. His two opponents had claimed fraud and dropped out of the race.