Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.

Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
A multiparty constitution inaugurated in 1996 retained the death penalty. In 1996, President Idriss Deby, on occasion of his investiture, commuted all death sentences pronounced in 1994 and 1995 to life imprisonment.
Chad had not executed anyone since 1991, but, in the space of three days in 2003, nine people were put to death.
No executions were registered in the country in 2004.