Kazakhstan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide,...
- News items in the archive
- 142
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Kazakhstan is classified as Abolitionist for ordinary crimes 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 142 news items on Kazakhstan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Chairman of the Kazakh Supreme Court Kairat Mami...
The Chairman of the Kazakh Supreme Court Kairat Mami opposes the possible abolition of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The city court in the Kazakh capital Astana found Askar...
The city court in the Kazakh capital Astana found Askar Mambetov guilty of brutally killing six people
- AUGUST 14, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Supreme Court chairman, Kayrat Mami, said in an interview...
Supreme Court chairman, Kayrat Mami, said in an interview with the Kazakh newspaper MN Novosti Nedeli that it was too early to abolish capital punishment
- AUGUST 8, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Mijya Stoyanov and two other unnamed men convicted...
Mijya Stoyanov and two other unnamed men convicted for murder were executed by shooting
- JUNE 28, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was held a session of " roundtable", where the issues,...
It was held a session of " roundtable", where the issues, concerning justice ministry's cooperation with mass media in resolution of actual problems of legal culture forming in the society
- JUNE 21, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament gave its...
The lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament gave its approval of amendments to the country's Criminal, Criminal Procedural and Criminal Executive codes
- JUNE 19, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A Kazakh citizen was sentenced to the death penalty...
A Kazakh citizen was sentenced to the death penalty for double homicide and attempted murder by an Aktyubinsk regional court in western Kazakhstan
- JUNE 19, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists are calling for the soonest...
Human rights activists are calling for the soonest introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty and a further abolition of it in Kazakhstan
- JUNE 13, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Deputy head of the administration of Kazakh President...
The Deputy head of the administration of Kazakh President [Nursultan Nazarbayev] and the head of the state and legal department of the administration of the head of state, Igor Rogov, told an international conference in [the northern Kazakh capital] Almat
- APRIL 29, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the need of a moratorium on capital punishment in Kazakhstan in his message to the nation, which he read in parliament,
- MARCH 29, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called for a...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called for a moratorium on the death penalty and its abolition in the future
- MARCH 16, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Sultan Sartayev, former chief of the Presidential Committee...
Sultan Sartayev, former chief of the Presidential Committee for Pardon of Condemned, said 90% of the population in Kazakhstan is against the abolishment of the death penalty
- JANUARY 31, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The upper house of the Kazakh parliament, the Senate,...
The upper house of the Kazakh parliament, the Senate, approved amendments to legislation on combating terrorism
- JANUARY 16, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Mazhilis voted in favour of amendments to the antiterrorism...
The Mazhilis voted in favour of amendments to the antiterrorism legislation to make any attempt on the life of the president punishable by the death penalty
- JANUARY 10, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh government proposed stiffening punishment,...
The Kazakh government proposed stiffening punishment, right up to the death sentence, for attempts on the president's life, the Kazakhstan Today news agency reported
- JANUARY 3, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in eastern Kazakhstan passed the death sentence...
A court in eastern Kazakhstan passed the death sentence on two criminals who shot a man, his wife and their daughter, Kazakh television reported
- JANUARY 1, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh International Human Rights Bureau believes...
The Kazakh International Human Rights Bureau believes that 400 people have been executed in the republic over the last 9 years
- JANUARY 1, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide,...
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide, sabotage, and 8 military crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists in Kazakhstan stated that there...
Human rights activists in Kazakhstan stated that there exists in the republic an "extremely repressive penal policy, most parameters of which contradict international tendencies in this sphere"
- JANUARY 1, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakhstan does not disclose official statistics on...
Kazakhstan does not disclose official statistics on the use of the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
In compliance with Article 15 of RK Constitution "Death...
In compliance with Article 15 of RK Constitution "Death punishment is set by the law as an exclusive punishment measure, the sentenced has a right to intercede for mercy
- JANUARY 1, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
According to the Kazakh International Bureau for Human...
According to the Kazakh International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, some 400 people have been executed over the past nine years
- NOVEMBER 19, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Kazakhstan's northern Kostanay Region sentenced...
A court in Kazakhstan's northern Kostanay Region sentenced a man to death for murder, the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported
- OCTOBER 31, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The leader of one of the gangs operating in the town...
The leader of one of the gangs operating in the town of Arkalyk in Northern Kazakhstan was sentenced to death, Arkalyk's Prosecutor Munaitpas Kitamanov told a press conference
- OCTOBER 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Almaty sentenced to death by shooting two...
A court in Almaty sentenced to death by shooting two of the three men accused of cannibalism
- JULY 10, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported on Kazakh television that the country...
It was reported on Kazakh television that the country may lose the opportunity to join the European Community if it did not abolish the death penalty since both the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the OSCE had set this condition for ac
- JUNE 29, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Zhambyl Regional court sentenced to death Mikhail...
The Zhambyl Regional court sentenced to death Mikhail Vagner, 30, accused of being a rapist and serial killer
- JUNE 26, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in northern Kazakhstan has sentenced a 29-year-old...
A court in northern Kazakhstan has sentenced a 29-year-old man, Oleg Murayenko, to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murdering six young women in Petropavlovsk between March and November 2000
- JUNE 25, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Justice Ministry proposed toughening the punishment...
The Justice Ministry proposed toughening the punishment for drug trafficking, the Chairman of the Ministry's Committee on Drugs Serikkali Mukanov said
- MAY 5, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Aleksandr Okoneshnikov, the leader of a criminal group,...
Aleksandr Okoneshnikov, the leader of a criminal group, was sentenced to death for robbing several currency exchange offices and for brutal killing the director of a poultry farm