Burkina Faso provides for the death penalty in the following crimes:

Burkina Faso provides for the death penalty in the following crimes: treason or espionage in wartime; spying activities undertaken by a foreigner or displaced person; crimes against humanity; murder, parricide, poisoning; castration provoking death; aggravated theft causing bodily harm or death.
The death penalty was carried out for the first time in 1960, the same year Burkina Faso gained its independence from the United Kingdom. The last executions took place in 1988, when seven people were put to death for killing an army officer and his wife. Though executions are not being carried out, courts have continued to pass death sentences, although in 2012, for the first time in recent years, no new death sentences were handed down. At least one new death sentence was imposed in Burkina Faso in 2013.
On 22 April 2013, Burkina Faso was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council. In its National Report, the Government said that “Burkina Faso is experiencing some difficulties and constraints that are hindering the free exercise of human rights,” including “an un-familiarity with human rights instruments among most of the population, and national opinion that opposes the abolition of the death penalty.” The country’s delegation noted that no consensus was reached on the abolition of the death penalty during the relevant consultations held by the Consultative Council for Political Reforms in 2011. Nevertheless, a draft bill was prepared ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and consultations are still being held to better prepare public opinion to accept ratification of the aforementioned Optional Protocol. Recommendations to formalize the de facto moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolition were not rejected by Burkina Faso, which will provide its responses no later than the 24^th session of the Human Rights Council in September 2013, the country’s delegation said.
On 18 December 2014, Burkina Faso voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.