Mauritius
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the...
- News items in the archive
- 34
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Mauritius is classified as Abolitionist 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 34 news items on Mauritius, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2020MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2019MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2018MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2017MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2016MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2015MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2014MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2013MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2012MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 29, 2011MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
the Mauritian Prime Minister, Navin Ramgoolam...
the Mauritian Prime Minister, Navin Ramgoolam...
- JANUARY 15, 2011MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
the head of the Government of Mauritius wants to reintroduce the death penalty in cases of murder...
the head of the Government of Mauritius wants to reintroduce the death penalty in cases of murder...
- JANUARY 1, 2011MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2010MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2009MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2008MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
the Mauritius voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
the Mauritius voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- JANUARY 1, 2007MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- JANUARY 1, 2006MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act...
- DECEMBER 19, 2005MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
MAURITIUS. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES ABOLISHMENT OF DEATH PENALTY
the Mauritian branch of Amnesty International (AI) petitioned Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam demanding the scrapping of the death penalty in the island nation.
- APRIL 20, 2005MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- JANUARY 1, 2005MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act 1995 amended the Constitution to abolish the death penalty. No more death sentences were passed after 1995.
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act 1995 amended the Constitution to abolish the death penalty. No more death sentences were passed after 1995.
- APRIL 21, 2004MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 11, 2004MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act 1995 amended the Constitution to abolish the death penalty. No more death sentences were passed after 1995.
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995 when the Death Penalty Act 1995 amended the Constitution to abolish the death penalty. No more death sentences were passed after 1995.
- APRIL 24, 2003MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- JANUARY 1, 2003MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the last death sentence was passed, and the last execution took place in 1987
- OCTOBER 23, 2002MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
The Minister of Women's rights, children's development...
The Minister of Women's rights, children's development and family welfare, Arianne Navarre-Marie, appealed to the Miss Mauritius organizing committee to boycott the Miss World competition to be held in Nigeria on 7 December 2002, in solidarity with Amina
- JANUARY 1, 2002MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the last death sentence was passed, and the last execution took place in 1987
- APRIL 25, 2001MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the...
Mauritius was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- JANUARY 1, 2001MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the...
Mauritius has been abolitionist since 1995, when the last death sentence was passed, and the last execution took place in 1987
- APRIL 26, 2000MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Mauritius cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no