Lebanon
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 · In 1994, capital punishment was reintroduced as an...
- News items in the archive
- 224
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Lebanon 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 224 news items on Lebanon, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2006LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon reinstated the death penalty in 1994 in a bid to stem a rise in violent crime following the 1975-90 civil war.
Lebanon reinstated the death penalty in 1994 in a bid to stem a rise in violent crime following the 1975-90 civil war.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2005LebanonDEATH PENALTY
LEBANON. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SECOND TIME
Lebanese national Hasan Khalil al-Rahim was sentenced to hang by a court in Beirut for the murder of a money broker in Akkar province in August 1997.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2005LebanonDEATH PENALTY
LEBANON. THE DEATH PENALTY A DISGRACE TO OUR COUNTRY, EX PREMIER HOSS
in Lebanon the death penalty is “not only applied but is unlikely to be abolished anytime soon. It is a disgrace to our country,” declared former Lebanese Prime Minister Silam Hoss in an interview with Aki news agency.
- JANUARY 1, 2005LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon reinstated the death penalty in 1994 in a bid to stem a rise in violent crime following the 1975-90 civil war.
Lebanon reinstated the death penalty in 1994 in a bid to stem a rise in violent crime following the 1975-90 civil war.
- OCTOBER 21, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists and legal experts denounced...
Human rights activists and legal experts denounced Lebanon's death penalty as immoral and ineffective at stopping crime at a seminar held at Saint Esprit Kaslik University
- JULY 30, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara said that a...
Lebanese Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara said that a proposal submitted by seven deputies to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment with hard labor would mean the creation of a completely new category of punishment in Lebanese law
- JULY 23, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Jamal Abdel-Khaleq Bazazi, a 23 year old Moroccan man,...
Jamal Abdel-Khaleq Bazazi, a 23 year old Moroccan man, was reportedly sentenced to death for killing a jeweler in 2002 so he could rob him of money with which he could buy rockets he would use to attack the US Embassy
- JULY 10, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A draft law presented by 7 MPs to Parliament calling...
A draft law presented by 7 MPs to Parliament calling for the abolishment of capital punishment was met with mixed reviews from academics
- JULY 9, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the Bekaa Criminal Court issued...
It was reported that the Bekaa Criminal Court issued five death sentences against suspects charged with murder and attempts at premeditated murder, no further details were given
- APRIL 12, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon reinstated the death penalty in 1994 in a bid to stem a rise in violent crime following the 1975-90 civil war.
Lebanon reinstated the death penalty in 1994 in a bid to stem a rise in violent crime following the 1975-90 civil war.
- JANUARY 19, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Regarding the executions which took place in Lebanon...
Regarding the executions which took place in Lebanon on January 17, Jacque Sarraf, former president of the Lebanese Industrialists' Association said: "After hearing the statements made by the executed and their family members, one cannot help but feel sor
- JANUARY 19, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Regarding the executions which took place in Lebanon...
Regarding the executions which took place in Lebanon on January 17, Hands Off Cain General Secretary Sergio D'Elia said: "Europe's appeals against the resumption of executions in Lebanon would have been more credible and strong if the EU had presented and
- JANUARY 17, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Three Lebanese men sentenced to death for murder were...
Three Lebanese men sentenced to death for murder were executed at dawn in the first use of the death penalty in the country since public hangings in 1998
- JANUARY 16, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Lebanese government announced in a statement that...
The Lebanese government announced in a statement that six prisoners on death row had their sentences reduced to life in prison with hard labour
- JANUARY 16, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, whose country held...
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, whose country held the rotating EU presidency, called on Lebanese President Emil Lahoud to intervene to stop the execution of three men, due to be put to death on January 17
- JANUARY 16, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Dozens of intellectuals and human rights activists...
Dozens of intellectuals and human rights activists held a sit-in at the Lebanese parliament to protest against the three imminent executions to take place on January 17
- JANUARY 15, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon was preparing to execute three convicted murderers...
Lebanon was preparing to execute three convicted murderers in the country's first imposition of the death penalty since 1998, a judicial source said, sparking protests from the European Union and human rights groups
- JANUARY 15, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Upon finding out that Lebanon was to resume executions...
Upon finding out that Lebanon was to resume executions following a six year break, by scheduling three executions for January 17, the European Union, in a statement, called on President Lahoud to reverse the decision to reinstate the death penalty
- JANUARY 15, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on Lebanese President...
Amnesty International called on Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to immediately halt the imminent execution of three men, due to be put to death on January 17
- JANUARY 7, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists, legal experts and religious...
Human rights activists, legal experts and religious figures in Lebanon described the authorities' implementation of capital punishment as inhumane
- JANUARY 3, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Capital punishment is not only useless in deterring...
Capital punishment is not only useless in deterring crime, but is also inhumane and unjustifiable, Walid Slaibi, head of the Human Rights Movement in Lebanon, said
- DECEMBER 16, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged Lebanon's President, Emile...
Amnesty International urged Lebanon's President, Emile Lahoud, to use his prerogative to immediately commute the death sentences passed on 27 people
- DECEMBER 10, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the...
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the death penalty for 31 convicts, who risk being hanged if President Emile Lahoud does not excuse them
- OCTOBER 28, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment...
The death penalty is an effective form of punishment and should not abolished, said one of Lebanon's leading magistrates, Ghassan Rabah
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is indicative of the government's...
The death penalty is indicative of the government's failure to face social problems, said Father Louis Khawand, president of the Religious Education Center in the Maronite monastery of Mashmoushe, Jezzine, in an interview with Beirut's The Daily Star
- MAY 2, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Judicial Council in Lebanon sentenced to death...
The Judicial Council in Lebanon sentenced to death Ahmad Ali Mansour after he was convicted of deliberately shooting eight people dead and injuring four others, at a shoot-out in the private teachers' fund at UNESCO, Beirut, on July 31, 2002
- JANUARY 29, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A military appeals court in Beirut upheld a death sentence...
A military appeals court in Beirut upheld a death sentence against a Lebanese man convicted of shooting and killing three soldiers, judicial officials
- JANUARY 1, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On july 26, 2001 the Lebanese Parliament voted unanimously...
On july 26, 2001 the Lebanese Parliament voted unanimously to repeal a law that made the death penalty mandatory for all premeditated murders
- DECEMBER 9, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi requested...
Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi requested death sentences for two men convicted of murdering a physician
- OCTOBER 2, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese former Finance Minister Georges Corm, said...
Lebanese former Finance Minister Georges Corm, said that the death sentence by stoning passed on Amina Lawal by a Nigerian Sharia Court did not serve the cause of Islam