Morocco
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Art. 16 of the Moroccan penal code provides the death...
- News items in the archive
- 131
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Morocco is classified as Abolitionist de facto 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 131 news items on Morocco, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
JULY 30, 2009MoroccoDEATH PENALTYMOROCCO: KING PARDONS PRISONERS
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has amnestied about 24,000 prisoners to mark the 10th
APRIL 14, 2009MoroccoDEATH PENALTYMOROCCO: THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF A LAWYER AND HIS WIFE
Three Moroccans were sentenced to death by a court of Meknès (120 km east of
- MARCH 8, 2009MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
a 33 year old serial killer that raped and murdered three girls in Settat...
a 33 year old serial killer that raped and murdered three girls in Settat...
- JANUARY 1, 2009MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes..
- DECEMBER 12, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
the Rights and People project, an Arabic-language anti-death penalty venture, will start work in early 2009
the Rights and People project, an Arabic-language anti-death penalty venture, will start work in early 2009
- DECEMBER 1, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND ISLAMISTS OPPOSE ABOLITION
King Mohamed VI of Morocco could easily abolish the death penalty by royal decree.
- OCTOBER 11, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Moroccan and international politicians, religious leaders and campaigners held advanced discussions in Rabat for World Day Against the Death Penalty
Moroccan and international politicians, religious leaders and campaigners held advanced discussions in Rabat for World Day Against the Death Penalty
- AUGUST 19, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: FIRING SQUADS SILENT- BUT DEATH HOVERS
Morocco's death row prisoners, some 150 inmates, are living in sub-human, "life-threatening conditions", according to leading NGOs and rights activists
- JUNE 2, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
two recently discovered mass graves and a still-secret list of five other places where
- FEBRUARY 13, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Appeal in Salé, Morocco, commuted the death sentence of Amine Mrini...
the Court of Appeal in Salé, Morocco, commuted the death sentence of Amine Mrini...
- JANUARY 1, 2008MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes..
- DECEMBER 19, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: TERRORISM 'OBSTACLE TO ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY'
suicide bombings earlier this year in the port city of Casablanca...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco abstained on the Resolution...
Morocco abstained on the Resolution...
- DECEMBER 10, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO CONSIDERS ENDING DEATH PENALTY
Morocco's justice minister says his country is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment.
- NOVEMBER 12, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: KING SEEN AS FINAL ARBITER IN LONG-RUNNING DEBATE
the months-long political impasse over death penalty abolition in Morocco can only be finally broken by King Mohamed VI, according to a leading rights campaigner.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: SCHOLAR: 'ISLAM AND ABOLITION ARE COMPATIBLE'
many in the Arab world find support for the death penalty in the Quran. But this is a false reading of the texts, says Mustapha Bouhandi, professor of comparative religion at Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco.
- JUNE 18, 2007ItalyDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MOROCCO FOR MURDER OF EU DIPLOMAT
a Moroccan appeals court upheld the death sentence of a 25 year old man convicted of murdering an Italian
- JUNE 12, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Amin Mrini, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin...
Amin Mrini, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin...
- APRIL 17, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
PORTUGAL, MOROCCO SIGN EXTRADITION ACCORD AT RABAT SUMMIT
the Lusa News Agency reported that Portugal and Morocco ended a two day summit in Rabat with the signing a bilateral agreement on extradition.
- MARCH 2, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. HUGE AMNESTY SIGNALS HISTORIC DAY
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners, on the occasion of the birth on February 28 of his daughter Lalla Khadija, the Justice ministry affirmed.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING EU DIPLOMAT AND WIFE
a Moroccan court sentenced a man to death for killing an Italian diplomat and his Belgian spouse.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Morocco will remove by the end of April the death penalty from its statute books, the president of the state
- JANUARY 5, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO CLOSE TO ABOLISHING EXECUTIONS, JUSTICE MINISTRY OFFICIAL
Morocco could soon decide to abolish the death penalty or suspend executions, a highly placed source in the justice ministry said.
- JANUARY 1, 2007MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes..
- DECEMBER 22, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. COURT SENTENCES TWO BOMB SUSPECTS TO DEATH
a court handed death sentences to two Moroccans arrested in 2005 on suspicion of helping organise suicide attacks in 2003 that killed 45 people in Casablanca, lawyers said.
- OCTOBER 27, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. RABAT ‘HAS WILL’ TO SCRAP DEATH PENALTY
Morocco has the political will to abolish the death penalty, which has not been applied since 1993, the country’s justice minister told a newspaper.
- OCTOBER 4, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT COULD SOON BE ABOLISHED
a bill that would abolish capital punishment in Morocco is scheduled to be presented to parliament within the few next months, said Bouchra Khiari, deputy of the opposition party Le Front des Forces Démocratiques (FFD).
- JUNE 19, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. CALL FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY IN MOROCCO
the World Coalition against the death penalty held its general assembly in Casablanca on June 17-18. The special session was dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco, North Africa and the Middle East.
- MARCH 27, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. THIRTY DEATH ROW PRISONERS GO ON "OPEN-ENDED HUNGER STRIKE"
thirty detainees sentenced to death in the central prison in Kenitra, Morocco...
- JANUARY 1, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes..