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.
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- APRIL 16, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate...
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Said Mirza demanded the death sentence for a woman, Fawz Hajj Hussein Ellao, her sons Abbas and Ellao, and two other men, Imad Matar and Youssef Mohammed, for allegedly murdering a 5-year-old girl, Zeinab
- APRIL 2, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian...
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian woman confessed to killing her newborn baby by throwing him from a 7th-floor apartment in Sidon at the end of March
- MARCH 25, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25,...
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25, Walid Mohammed Jamal Youzbashi, 25, Azzam Ali Raai, 29, and Khaled Mohammed Jamaleddine, 47, were charged with the premeditated murder of Omar and Doha Mrad in 1997
- MARCH 22, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On 22 March, the North's Prosecution Committee recommended...
On 22 March, the North's Prosecution Committee recommended that a woman Hiba Abdel-Razzaq Maasarani, 41, be sentenced to death for shooting her husband, businessman Adel Fouad Traboulsi, 46, in his sleep in 1997
- MARCH 3, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On March 3, the chief investigating magistrate in the...
On March 3, the chief investigating magistrate in the North, Salah Moukheiber, asked that the death penalty be given to Dib Eid Semaan, 58, for killing Bernadette Bazeouni, in Hadsheet, Bsharri in 1996, because of a long-standing feud between the two fami
- MARCH 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
In March, Jean Yusuf Chahin, who arrrived in Australia...
In March, Jean Yusuf Chahin, who arrrived in Australia two years ago on a holiday visa and has applied for residency in Australia as a refugee, was sentenced to death for 9 alleged assassinations and the bombing of a church in Lebanon
- FEBRUARY 17, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On February 17, the Military Prosecutor accused 200...
On February 17, the Military Prosecutor accused 200 people of collaboration with Israeli intelligence, entering Israel and smuggling drugs and cigarettes across the Southern border
- FEBRUARY 12, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On February 12, Bananya Nadim Abdullah, a woman aged...
On February 12, Bananya Nadim Abdullah, a woman aged 24, was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to enlisting the help of 2 young shoeshine boys to kill her stepson near Zghorta in 1994
- JANUARY 22, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On January, 22, Military Prosecutor Nasri Lahoud requested...
On January, 22, Military Prosecutor Nasri Lahoud requested the death sentence for Lieut
- JANUARY 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
In 1994, capital punishment was reintroduced as an...
In 1994, capital punishment was reintroduced as an extreme move which the Government wrongly assumed would decrease crime and protect society
- JANUARY 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Laws in the Lebanese Penal Code are based on the first...
Laws in the Lebanese Penal Code are based on the first Ottoman Penal Code of 1840
- JANUARY 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The 1994 law on the death penalty has become the subject...
The 1994 law on the death penalty has become the subject of public criticism from MPs, human rights activists and many courts that have pronounced death sentences because although not convinced of their verdict they had to abide by a law which denied them
- JANUARY 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On May 19, 1998, the first public execution in Lebanon...
On May 19, 1998, the first public execution in Lebanon since the introduction of the new death penalty law was carried out
- JANUARY 1, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lawyer Seta Kerechekian believes that the cancellation...
Lawyer Seta Kerechekian believes that the cancellation of a law in the Penal Code could eventually change people's mentality, if not by conviction, then by fear of punishment