Cameroon
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Premeditated murder, aggravated theft and treason are...
- News items in the archive
- 50
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Cameroon is classified as Abolitionist de facto 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 50 news items on Cameroon, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2021CameroonDEATH PENALTY
CAMEROON: FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SHOOTING ATTACK ON SCHOOL
A court in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death for their roles in a shooting attack on a school last year that killed seven children and wounded 12 others, according to a court document seen by Reuters on 8 September 2021.
APRIL 19, 2020CameroonDEATH PENALTYCAMEROON: PRESIDENT ORDERS DE-CROWDING OF PRISONS TO COMBAT COVID-19
Cameroon's president has announced steps that will lead to the release of thousands of prisoners due to concerns about the coronavirus spreading in overcrowded facilities, VOA News reported on 16 April 2020.
- JANUARY 1, 2020CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2019CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2018CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- OCTOBER 12, 2017CameroonDEATH PENALTY
235 on death row
12 October 2017. a group of lawyers against the death penalty in Cameroon said, through Agence Press Africa, that the detainees sentenced to death are about 235.
- JANUARY 1, 2017CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
AUGUST 25, 2016CameroonDEATH PENALTYCAMEROON: 109 SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Cameroon has sentenced 109 people to death for having links with terrorist sect, Boko Haram.
MARCH 17, 2016CameroonDEATH PENALTYCAMEROON: 89 BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death on terror charges, the BBC Hausa service is reporting.
- JANUARY 1, 2016CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- MAY 23, 2015CameroonDEATH PENALTY
after the adoption by the Senate and the National Assembly, President Paul Biya promulgated the new anti-
after the adoption by the Senate and the National Assembly, President Paul Biya promulgated the new anti-
- JANUARY 1, 2015CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
FEBRUARY 19, 2014CameroonDEATH PENALTYCAMEROON: PRESIDENT BIYA GRANTS AMNESTY TO POLITICAL PRISONERS
Cameroon President Paul Biya has ordered the release of several high profile former government officials-
- JANUARY 1, 2014CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2013CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2012CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2011CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2010CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2009CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- MAY 22, 2008CameroonDEATH PENALTY
CAMEROON. PRESIDENT BIYA ISSUES PARDON
after successfully celebrating the 36th National Day, Cameroon President Paul Biya signed
- JANUARY 1, 2008CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon abstained...
Cameroon abstained...
- JANUARY 1, 2007CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2006CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2005CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- APRIL 11, 2004CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
Cameroon applies the death penalty for treason.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2003CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Security forces in Cameroon were severely criticised...
Security forces in Cameroon were severely criticised for rising cases of torture, arbitrary arrests and summary executions in the country's English-speaking provinces
- AUGUST 11, 2003CameroonDEATH PENALTY
The Nkongsamba High Court in Cameroon's Littoral province...
The Nkongsamba High Court in Cameroon's Littoral province sentenced to death Laure Huguette Kinding Yango, a 24 year old nurse, for spreading AIDS
- APRIL 24, 2003CameroonDEATH PENALTY
Cameroon abstained from the resolution on the death...
Cameroon abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- FEBRUARY 28, 2003CameroonDEATH PENALTY
A military tribunal in the west African state of Cameroon...
A military tribunal in the west African state of Cameroon sentenced seven people to death for the murder of the police chief in the town of Bamenda, legal officials said