Chad
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 · Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying...
- News items in the archive
- 54
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Chad 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 54 news items on Chad, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2007ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2006ChadDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. CHADIAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Saudi Arabia executed a Chadian for drug smuggling. The official Saudi Press Agency said the man from Chad was caught smuggling cocaine into the country.
- JANUARY 1, 2006ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
- JANUARY 1, 2005ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
- AUGUST 3, 2004ChadDEATH PENALTY
Chad has sentenced 19 Arab herdsmen to death by firing...
Chad has sentenced 19 Arab herdsmen to death by firing squad for their part in killing 21 villagers during an attack in the south of the country earlier in the year
- APRIL 11, 2004ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences.
- NOVEMBER 9, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
A man was shot dead by firing squad in the Chadian...
A man was shot dead by firing squad in the Chadian capital Ndjamena for the murder of a Guatemalan religious worker
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
Chad ignored protests from human rights groups and...
Chad ignored protests from human rights groups and carried out the death penalty for the first time since 1991, executing eight people after vowing to crack down on unrest in the impoverished desert state
- OCTOBER 25, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
A court in Chad sentenced four men to death for the...
A court in Chad sentenced four men to death for the murder of Sudanese businessman Acheik Ibni Oumar Idriss Youssouf, who headed the Chad Petroleum company
- AUGUST 13, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah bin Yahia Mohammed of Chad, was publicly executed...
Abdullah bin Yahia Mohammed of Chad, was publicly executed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after being found guilty of smuggling hallucinogenic tablets into the kingdom
- JANUARY 1, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
A multiparty constitution inaugurated in 1996 retained...
A multiparty constitution inaugurated in 1996 retained the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
Chad has signed but not yet ratified the statute of...
Chad has signed but not yet ratified the statute of the International Criminal Court, the United Nation's permanent war crimes court
- JANUARY 1, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
In 1996, President Idriss Deby, on occasion of his...
In 1996, President Idriss Deby, on occasion of his investiture, commuted all death sentences pronounced in 1994 and 1995 to life imprisonment
- JANUARY 1, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying...
Capital crimes are aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offences
- JANUARY 1, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offenses
- MARCH 15, 2002ChadDEATH PENALTY
Idris Deby, Chad's president, is circulating a video...
Idris Deby, Chad's president, is circulating a video of eight Chadians arrested in the north of the Central African Republic, who were taken to Bangui and allegedly tortured
- JANUARY 1, 2002ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offenses
- JULY 3, 2001ChadDEATH PENALTY
N'Djamena's criminal court sentenced five people to...
N'Djamena's criminal court sentenced five people to death, including one in absentia after convicting them for armed robbery
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offenses
- DECEMBER 18, 2000ChadDEATH PENALTY
The National Front for a Renewed Chad charged that...
The National Front for a Renewed Chad charged that President Idriss Deby's army was guilty of atrocities against civilians in Ouaddai province, including the execution of three villagers on December 16 for refusing "to hand over their property to governme
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ChadDEATH PENALTY
The National Front for a Renewed Chad (FNTR), an armed...
The National Front for a Renewed Chad (FNTR), an armed opposition movement, accused the government of executing six suspected members of the opposition on 17 November
- JANUARY 1, 2000ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offenses
- DECEMBER 1, 1999ChadDEATH PENALTY
In December, former Chadian President Goukouni Weddeye...
In December, former Chadian President Goukouni Weddeye launched in Paris a major politico-military movement grouping over 10 opposition bodies with a view to fighting against the "dictatorial regime of President Idriss Derby in order to effect the necessa
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChadDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, treason, spying and military offenses