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

Burkina Faso’s laws currently provide for the use of the death penalty in the penal code, the military code of justice and article 4 of the railways police law.
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.
On 10 June 2015, in a closed-door meeting in Ouagadougou, the office of the Transitional National Council (TNC) unanimously adopted seven draft laws to be submitted to the Government, including one concerning the abolition of the death penalty. “We found it necessary to settle the issue, which is controversial. The proposal does not seek to remove the death penalty, but to create alternative sanctions,” said the first deputy chairman of the TNC, Colonel Lucien Honoré Nombré. In August, the national transition parliament started a series of discussions with organisations and interested parties before putting the bill to the vote. At the end of June 2016, the bill had not yet been adopted.
In 2015, two new death sentences were imposed in Burkina Faso.
In April 2013, Burkina Faso was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council. 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.
In 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.