Ethiopia
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 · Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity...
- News items in the archive
- 103
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Ethiopia 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 103 news items on Ethiopia, from 1999 to today.
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- JANUARY 1, 2001EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity...
Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 25, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Yeshiwork Desta Zewdu, a 20 years old Ethiopia woman...
Yeshiwork Desta Zewdu, a 20 years old Ethiopia woman was sentenced to death by a Bahraini court in November after she was found guilty of killing her Filipino employer in 1998
- OCTOBER 4, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Dawit Yohanes, the Speaker of the House of People's...
Dawit Yohanes, the Speaker of the House of People's Representatives called upon the international community to condemn the atrocities being committed against Ethiopian civilians by the Eritrean government at a "regional seminar of experts on the preventio
- APRIL 23, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian man was executed in Saudi Arabia after...
An Ethiopian man was executed in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of stabbing a Sudanese man to death while the victim was sleeping
- MARCH 16, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
The Italian Charge d'Affaires, Renato Cianfarani said...
The Italian Charge d'Affaires, Renato Cianfarani said Italy was offering sanctuary to three former Derg officials at the Italian Embassy "solely on humanitarian grounds," and that Italy would hand them over if Ethiopia pledged the ex-officials would not f
- FEBRUARY 13, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Two peasants were killed in fresh attacks by the weyane...
Two peasants were killed in fresh attacks by the weyane (Ethiopian government) against the Hadiya people in the southwestern part of the country
- JANUARY 20, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy President Jacob Zuma asked rhetorically why...
Deputy President Jacob Zuma asked rhetorically why Ethiopia would apply to South Africa for the extradition of its former president Mengistu Haile Mariam when it had not put such a request to Zimbabwe, the refuge of the ousted dictator
- JANUARY 1, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity...
Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity are capital crimes
- NOVEMBER 15, 1999EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
On November 15, the second criminal bench of the Federal...
On November 15, the second criminal bench of the Federal High Court sentenced second Lt
- NOVEMBER 8, 1999EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
On November 8, the High Court in Addis Ababa handed...
On November 8, the High Court in Addis Ababa handed down its first death sentence in the mass trial, which began 5 years ago, of thousands of former government officials accused of involvement in the "Red Terror" campaign of former dictator Mengistu Haile
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
At the end of November, South African Justice Minister...
At the end of November, South African Justice Minister Penuell Maduna announced that, after receiving information from Human Rights Watch, he had asked the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, to investigate the possibility of chargi
- JANUARY 1, 1999EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity...
Aggravated murder and crimes against the State or humanity are capital crimes
- JANUARY 1, 1999EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Ethiopia was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
Ethiopia was a cosponsor of the amendments presented by Egypt (A/C