Mali
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 · Mali was a cosponsor of the amendments presented by...
- News items in the archive
- 73
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Mali 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 73 news items on Mali, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
JANUARY 26, 2023MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER U.N. PEACEKEEPER DEATHS
A court in Mali has sentenced a man to death over a 2019 attack that killed three United Nations peacekeepers, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said on 25 January 2023 without naming the defendant.
- DECEMBER 31, 2022MaliDEATH PENALTY
MALI: 46 IVORIAN SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON; DEATH IN ABSENTIA GIVEN TO 3
Forty-six Ivorian soldiers in Mali were each sentenced on 30 December 2022 to 20 years in prison by a Malian court for attacking the security of the nation.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: JIHADIST CHIEF, 14 OTHERS, SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in Mali’s capital Bamako sentenced an Islamist militant leader and 14 other people to death on 13 November 2020 for jihadist activity in the south of the war-torn Sahel state.
OCTOBER 29, 2020MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HOTEL, RESTAURANT ATTACKS
A Malian court on 28 October 2020 handed a death sentence to a suspected jihadist and his co-defendant, his lawyer said, after he pleaded guilty to shooting five people to death in a 2015 attack and planning two other attacks targeting Westerners that kil
- JANUARY 1, 2020MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
NOVEMBER 22, 2019MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: MURDERER OF IMAM SENTENCED TO DEATH
Mali’s court on 19 November 2019 sentenced the murderer of an Imam to death.
- JANUARY 1, 2019MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- JANUARY 1, 2018MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- MAY 18, 2017MaliDEATH PENALTY
Unmarried Mali couple stoned to death for violating 'Islamic law'
On 18 May 2017, un unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by "Islamists", local officials revealed, the first such incident since jihadist groups were driven out of the region.
- MAY 16, 2017MaliDEATH PENALTY
MALI: UNMARRIED COUPLE STONED TO DEATH
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years ago.
- JANUARY 1, 2017MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- JANUARY 1, 2016MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- JANUARY 1, 2015MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- AUGUST 14, 2014MaliDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Assizes of Bamako sentenced four people – Bassidiki Touré, Souleymane
the Court of Assizes of Bamako sentenced four people – Bassidiki Touré, Souleymane
- AUGUST 6, 2014MaliDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Assizes of Bamako sentenced 24-year-old Sounkodjan alias Bah Diarra to death a man after
the Court of Assizes of Bamako sentenced 24-year-old Sounkodjan alias Bah Diarra to death a man after
- JANUARY 1, 2014MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- JANUARY 1, 2013MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
OCTOBER 2, 2012MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: ISLAMISTS EXECUTE ALLEGED MURDERER IN TIMBUKTU
Islamists who have seized control of northern Mali publicly executed a man accused
JULY 29, 2012MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: ISLAMISTS STONE UNMARRIED COUPLE TO DEATH
Islamists in northern Mali stoned an unmarried couple to death, the first reported sharia
JULY 9, 2012MaliDEATH PENALTYMAURITANIA: CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES 3 MALIANS TO DEATH FOR MURDER
The Criminal Court of Nouadhibo, about 465 kilometres north of Nouakchott, the
- MAY 7, 2012Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
a 20-year-old man, Amadou Tamboura...
a 20-year-old man, Amadou Tamboura...
JANUARY 5, 2012MaliDEATH PENALTYMALI: TUNISIAN EXTRADITED AFTER BEING SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Tunisian citizen has been extradited to his home country after being sentenced to death
- JANUARY 1, 2012MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- DECEMBER 15, 2011MaliDEATH PENALTY
MALI: PRESIDENT TOURÈ PARDONS TUNISIAN NATIONAL
Amadou Toumani Touré, the President of Mali, pardoned Bechir Sinoun, the Tunisian national
- NOVEMBER 28, 2011MaliDEATH PENALTY
MALI: DEATH PENALTY HANDED TO FRENCH EMBASSY ATTACKER
A Malian court has sentenced to death a Tunisian man accused of throwing an
- JANUARY 1, 2011MaliDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
Death sentences are given in Mali for serious crimes such as assassinations...
- NOVEMBER 11, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
MALI: HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION FOR ABOLITION AND UN MORATORIUM CONTINUES
the Hands Off Cain and Radical Party mission in Mali is continuing. Its objectives are to accelerate the parliamentary procedures for the definitive abolition of the death penalty in the country and to gain Mali's support for two important resolutions in
- NOVEMBER 11, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
MALI: HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION - HEARING IN PARLIAMENT AND VISIT TO BAMAKO WOMEN'S PRISON
the Hands Off Cain delegation in Mali (comprising Marco Pannella
- NOVEMBER 10, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
MALI: THE HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION'S FIRST MEETINGS FOR ABOLITION AND THE UN MORATORIUM
the Hands Off Cain and Radical Party delegation in Mali, comprising Marco Pannella
- OCTOBER 21, 2010MaliDEATH PENALTY
newspaper salesman Bané Kéita was sentenced to death in Mali for murdering a male co-worker.
newspaper salesman Bané Kéita was sentenced to death in Mali for murdering a male co-worker.