Angola
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Constitution approved in 1992 abolished the death...
- News items in the archive
- 39
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Angola is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 39 news items on Angola, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- AUGUST 10, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian Court sentenced twenty-eight-year-old...
An Indonesian Court sentenced twenty-eight-year-old Thomas Daniel to death for smuggling 1
- JUNE 1, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
It was quoted that residents in the area of Camacupa...
It was quoted that residents in the area of Camacupa as saying that UNITA also executed 37 traditional chiefs by hanging
- APRIL 26, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Angola cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Angola cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 28, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Angola's Assistant Attorney-General Cunha Caetano,...
Angola's Assistant Attorney-General Cunha Caetano, speaking in Geneva at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Commission, denied reports by Amnesty International that his country's armed forces have been involved in human rights violations
- MARCH 13, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused...
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi of ordering the execution of General Altino Sapalalo Bock, the former chief of staff of UNITA's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola [FALA], and Generals Tarzan and B
- JANUARY 1, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution approved in 1992 abolished the death...
The Constitution approved in 1992 abolished the death penalty
- OCTOBER 1, 1999AngolaDEATH PENALTY
In October, representatives of the Angolan mission...
In October, representatives of the Angolan mission at the United Nations in New York said that at the beginning of the year, because of increasing criminality, a group of judges called for the reintroduction of the death penalty
- APRIL 28, 1999AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Angola was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Angola was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999AngolaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution approved in 1992 abolished the death...
The Constitution approved in 1992 abolished the death penalty