Egypt
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, arson, rape,...
- News items in the archive
- 621
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Egypt is classified as Retentionist 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 621 news items on Egypt, from 1999 to today.
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AUGUST 2, 2026EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT EXECUTES CONVICTED KILLER OF COPTIC ORTHODOX PRIEST
- MARCH 17, 2026EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘TAGAMOA KILLER’
Egypt’s Court of Cassation issued a final and irrevocable ruling on March 15, 2026 upholding the death sentence for Karim Selim, known as the “Tagamoa killer,” for murdering three women and disposing their bodies in desert areas.
JANUARY 15, 2026EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: DEATH PENALTY HANDED TO ABDUCTOR FOR HORRIFIC ASSAULT OF MINOR
The Public Prosecution has called for the execution of a defendant known as Mohamed al-King following a violent assault on a young girl named Shaimaa, Women of Egypt reported.
NOVEMBER 17, 2025EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDERING HUSBAND, 6 CHILDREN IN MINYA
The Minya Criminal Court in Upper Egypt on November 8, 2025 sentenced the defendant “Hajar”, 26, to death by hanging for killing her husband and his six children in the village of Dalija.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: SERIAL KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
The South Cairo Criminal Court on September 12, 2024 sentenced an English teacher to death by hanging for torturing and killing three women earlier this year.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE IN GENERAL’S MURDER CASE
The Egyptian Criminal Court upheld the death sentence on September 3, 2024 against Essam Abdel Majeed, who was convicted of killing Major General Nabil Farag.
- JULY 9, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR OPERATIONS SUPPORTING ‘TERRORIST’ MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
A court sentenced nine people to death by hanging on July 6, 2024 as part of its verdict on 43 defendants in total accused of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
JULY 1, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TERRORISM CRIMINAL COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING OFFICER
The Egyptian Terrorism Criminal Court has sentenced to death a man for murdering a police officer in Shibin Al-Qanater and attempting to kill others, the Committee for Justice (CFJ) reported on June 27, 2024.
MAY 23, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: TEACHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
The Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced on May 21, 2024 a physics teacher to death for the premeditated murder of a high school student in Daqahliya governorate last February.
- APRIL 9, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: SEVEN DEATH SENTENCES CONFIRMED IN THE HELWAN BRIGADE CASE
Egypt’s highest court on January 24, 2024 confirmed the death sentences against seven individuals, in the so-called “Helwan Brigade” counter-terrorism case.
MARCH 5, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MB LEADERS BADIE, EL BELTAGY SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ‘PLATFORM INCIDENTS’ CASE
An Egyptian court sentenced on March 4, 2024, Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohamed Badie, Mohamed El-Beltagy, and 6 others to death in Case No. 72 of 2021, also known as the “Platform Incidents” case.
MARCH 4, 2024EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: DOCTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING 93 PATIENTS
An Egyptian doctor has been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of raping 93 patients, Gulf News reported on March 2, 2024.
JUNE 15, 2023EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN EXECUTED ONE YEAR AFTER KILLING OF NAYERA ASHRAF
Egypt on June 14, 2023 executed the killer of university student Naiyera Ashraf, who was murdered in a heinous crime last year in an incident that rocked the country and the region.
- FEBRUARY 16, 2023EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH, 11 OTHERS TO LIFE ON TERROR CHARGES
The First Terrorism Circuit at Egypt's State Security Criminal Court on 7 February 2023 sentenced a man to death by hanging, and 11 others to life imprisonment, three defendants to 15 years imprisonment and three defendants to ten years over various terro
- JANUARY 4, 2023EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MAN WHO STRANGLED HIS FIANCÉE SENTENCED TO DEATH
Mohamed Samir, who murdered his fiancée Kholoud Al-Sayed Farouk, has been sentenced to death by a court in Egypt, Middle East Monitor reported on 3 January 2023.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: GRAND MUFTI UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR SALMA BAHGAT'S KILLER
An Egyptian court on 7 November 2022 upheld the death sentence for a man who murdered a university student in the agricultural province of Sharqia.
OCTOBER 24, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 9 FROM ONE FAMILY SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
An Egyptian court has sentenced nine members of one family to death after convicting them of murdering a man and mutilating his body, Gulf News reported on 22 October 2022 citing local media report.
- OCTOBER 4, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: SALMA BAHGAT KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The killer of a 22-year-old university student has been sentenced to death, a court in the Egyptian province of Shariqa said on 3 October 2022.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MOTHER, LOVER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KILLING CHILDREN
A 26-year-old woman and her lover on 17 September 2022 were both sentenced to death by hanging in Egypt after being found guilty of killing her three children and attempting the murder of her husband, local media reported.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUFTI APPROVES EXECUTION OF JUDGE WHO KILLED TELEVISION PRESENTER WIFE
Egypt’s Grand Mufti approved the execution of Judge Ayman Haggag and an associate who were convicted of murdering Haggag’s television presenter wife, government-owned newspaper al-Ahram reported on 11 September 2022.
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 5 FRIENDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Criminal Court in Egypt has sentenced five defendants who are friends to death by hanging, and sentenced another to life imprisonment, Middle East Monitor reported on 31 August 2022, citing Al-Watan newspaper.
AUGUST 31, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: JUDGE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING JOURNALIST WIFE
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a judge to death on 16 August 2022 for the murder of his wife, in what is one of the most high-profile murder cases in the country in recent months.
- AUGUST 29, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: TWO MEN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WOMAN IN MAADI
After 20 months since the court ruling, the death sentence was carried out on 11 August 2022 for two men who were found guilty of the killing of a 24-year-old woman, Maryam Mohamed, in Cairo’s Maadi.
- AUGUST 1, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPTIAN COURT WANTS KILLER EXECUTED ON LIVE TV
An Egyptian court has called for the execution of a young man to be broadcast live. The condemned was convicting of stabbing his classmate at Mansoura University to death.
JULY 7, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MUFTI APPROVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLER OF STUDENT NAIYERA ASHRAF
The Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced the murderer of the student Naiyera Ashraf to death on 6 July 2022, after the Mufti approved the Court’s unanimous decision of execution.
- JULY 4, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPY: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
An Egyptian court on 28 June 2022 sentenced to death a man after finding him guilty of murdering Nayera Ashraf, a fellow university student who refused his advances.
JUNE 30, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT SENTENCES 10 PEOPLE TO DEATH IN THE HELWAN BRIGADES CASE
A court in Cairo on 28 June 2022 sentenced 10 people to death and 56 others to life imprisonment in a mass trial of the case against the Helwan Brigades, whose members have been accused of committing violent acts in Egypt.
JUNE 14, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 7 PAKISTANIS SENTENCED TO DEATH COMMUTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
The death sentence of seven Pakistanis imprisoned in Egypt has been commuted to life imprisonment, Pipa news reported on 9 June 2022.
- JUNE 13, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING PRIEST IN ALEXANDRIA
An Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced on 11 June 2022 a 60-year-old man to death for murdering Coptic Orthodox priest Arsanios Wadid last month in the Egyptian coastal city.
- MAY 22, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: DEATH SENTENCE HANDED DOWN FOR PRIEST’S MURDER
An Egyptian court on 18 May 2022 sentenced to death a man accused of the murder last month of a Coptic priest in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, judicial sources said.