Fiji
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 · Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes...
- News items in the archive
- 67
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Fiji 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 67 news items on Fiji, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2020FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2019FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2018FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2017FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2016FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- FEBRUARY 10, 2015FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji joined the ranks of countries to abolish the death penalty for all crimes.
Fiji joined the ranks of countries to abolish the death penalty for all crimes.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2015FijiDEATH PENALTY
FIJI: MPS TO VOTE ON REMOVAL OF DEATH PENALTY FROM THE MILITARY ACT
- JANUARY 1, 2015FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2014FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2013FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2012FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2011FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2010FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2009FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2008FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- DECEMBER 18, 2007FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Fiji abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- JANUARY 1, 2007FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JANUARY 1, 2006FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JULY 7, 2005FijiDEATH PENALTY
FIJI. MAJORITY FAVOUR DEATH PENALTY, POLL
a snap poll was conducted on the streets of Suva and Lautoka over sentences handed out be Fiji's justice system.
- JANUARY 1, 2005FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- APRIL 12, 2004FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
Fiji abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy in February 2002
- JUNE 27, 2003FijiDEATH PENALTY
Timoci Silatolu and Jo Nata, convicted of treason,...
Timoci Silatolu and Jo Nata, convicted of treason, were sentenced to life imprisonment with heavy minimum terms to serve for their role in Fiji's 2000 coup
- MAY 28, 2003FijiDEATH PENALTY
Apisai Tora, a leading Fiji Government senator, called...
Apisai Tora, a leading Fiji Government senator, called for sex offenders to be stoned to death or castrated and banished
- MARCH 21, 2003FijiDEATH PENALTY
A Fiji High Court judge said he could not sentence...
A Fiji High Court judge said he could not sentence two convicted coup plotters because he wasn't certain whether the South Pacific nation had formally abolished the death penalty as the government said it had
- JANUARY 1, 2003FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes...
Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1979; the last execution was carried out in 1964
- NOVEMBER 15, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International has called on authorities in...
Amnesty International has called on authorities in Fiji to prosecute those who suppressed the military mutiny in November 2000, as well as those who staged it
- NOVEMBER 14, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
A Fiji military court sentenced the leader of a failed...
A Fiji military court sentenced the leader of a failed mutiny to death but court officials said the sentence was automatically commuted to life in prison
- OCTOBER 2, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji's attorney-general, Qoriniasi Bale, said he could...
Fiji's attorney-general, Qoriniasi Bale, said he could not see anything preventing the President from commuting the death penalty if 15 soldiers facing a court martial for mutiny were found guilty, adding that he was holding discussions with the minister
- JUNE 15, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Home Affairs Minister Joketani Cokanasiga said at Queen...
Home Affairs Minister Joketani Cokanasiga said at Queen Victoria School that government will remove the death penalty from the Military Act, before reviewing the cadet passing out parade
- JUNE 1, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Two key figures in Fiji's 2000 coup were to be charged...
Two key figures in Fiji's 2000 coup were to be charged with treason and could be sentenced to death following High Court rulings