Gambia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Moratorium on executions
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death...
- News items in the archive
- 93
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Gambia is classified as Moratorium on executions 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 93 news items on Gambia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JUNE 10, 2010MaliDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: KEREWAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Gambia, Special Criminal Court Judge J.E Ikpala sentenced...
- JUNE 4, 2010GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING SISTER
Justice Joseph E. Ikpala of the Special Criminal Court in Gambia sentenced Bakary Daffeh to death for killing his sister, Kumba Daffeh.
- JANUARY 1, 2010GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- DECEMBER 28, 2009GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: DEATH ROLL CONVICT LOSES APPEAL
the Gambia Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Esther Ota unanimously dismissed Lamin Ceesay’s appeal against his death sentence for murder.
- OCTOBER 15, 2009GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA TO PUSH AHEAD WITH EXECUTIONS
Gambia will execute convicts sentenced to death for murder that have exhausted all appeals, director of
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: PRESIDENT PROMISES TO IMPLEMENT DEATH PENALTY
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has promised to carry out the "death penalty" to curtail increasing cases
- AUGUST 17, 2009GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GUINEAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING GAMBIAN WOMAN: COURT
a court in Banjul, Gambia, sentenced a Guinean shopkeeper to death for murdering a housewife.
- JANUARY 1, 2009GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2008GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: MURDER ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Gambian court handed down a death sentence to a police officer who killed a man during a police raid in 2007, local journalists said
- NOVEMBER 9, 2008GambiaDEATH PENALTY
local media reported that the Banjul High Court in Gambia...
local media reported that the Banjul High Court in Gambia...
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2008GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: SENEGALESE MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Justice Mabel Maame Agyemang of the Banjul High Court in Gambia convicted and sentenced Salifu Nyang, a Senegalese national, to death for murdering his fellow Senegalese national one Alfonse Faye.
- MAY 22, 2008GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIAN PRESIDENT THREATENS TO BEHEAD GAYS
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gay
- FEBRUARY 16, 2008LibyaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. TWO GHANAIANS EXCUTED FOR MURDER
two Ghanaian nationals and a Gambian were executed by firing squad at the Kofiya Rehabilitation Facility in Benghazi, after pleas for clemency and Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor’s last-minute intervention for a stay of execution were turned down.,
- JANUARY 1, 2008GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007GambiaDEATH PENALTY
Gambia abstained on the Resolution...
Gambia abstained on the Resolution...
- DECEMBER 10, 2007GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: TABARA SAMBA APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE VERDICT
a few months after the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court sentenced her to death...
- OCTOBER 2, 2007GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA. YOUNG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrates Court in
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2007GambiaDEATH PENALTY
GAMBIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR TABARA SAMBA
Tabara Samba was sentenced to death at the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court in Gambia for the murder of Ebrima Nyan...
- JANUARY 1, 2007GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- JANUARY 1, 2006GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- JANUARY 1, 2005GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- DECEMBER 3, 2004GambiaDEATH PENALTY
Batch Faye was sentenced to death by the Gambian High court
Batch Faye was sentenced to death by the Gambian High court
- APRIL 11, 2004GambiaDEATH PENALTY
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
In Gambia, the death penalty was abolished in 1993, but re-established in August 1995 by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.
- MARCH 25, 2003GambiaDEATH PENALTY
Omar Jallow, interim leader of Jawara's Peoples Progressive...
Omar Jallow, interim leader of Jawara's Peoples Progressive Party of Gambia, said in an interview, whilst on tour in the US, that since the new Constitution came into force in 1996 it had been amended 28 times at the expenses of human rights
- JANUARY 1, 2003GambiaDEATH PENALTY
The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death...
The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death penalty
- DECEMBER 17, 2002GambiaDEATH PENALTY
The Gambia Bar Association criticised the proposed...
The Gambia Bar Association criticised the proposed amendment bills on criminal and civil proceedings to be tabled for enactment to the National Assembly
- JANUARY 1, 2002GambiaDEATH PENALTY
The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death...
The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2001GambiaDEATH PENALTY
The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death...
The new Constitution adopted in 1996 retains the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2001GambiaDEATH PENALTY
Section 18 (1) of the constitution of the Gambia provides...
Section 18 (1) of the constitution of the Gambia provides for the protection of the right to life in the following terms:"No person shall be deprived of his or her life intentionally except in the execution of a sentence of death imposed by a court of com
- OCTOBER 31, 2000GambiaDEATH PENALTY
Three convicted former military officers, ex-Lt
Three convicted former military officers, ex-Lt