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 has endured more than 20 coups, or attempted coups, since gaining independence from France in 1975. In 2000, the three islands - Moheli, Anjouan and Grande Comore – negotiated the Fomboni Accords, a power-sharing agreement, in which the federal presidency rotates among the three islands and each island maintains its own local government. In 2006, President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi took office, replacing Former Colonel Azali Assoumani. Assoumani, who seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup on Grande Comore, won the 2002 executive Presidency as he was the only candidate (his two opponents claimed fraud and dropped out of the race). Since 2006, Anjouan's President Mohamed Bacar has refused to work effectively with the Union presidency. In 2007, Bacar caused Anjouan's de-facto secession from the Union, refusing to step down in favour of fresh Anjouanais elections when Comoros' other islands held legitimate elections in July. In March 2008, African Union and Comoran soldiers seized the island.