Myanmar (Burma)
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 · Myanmar was a cosponsor of the amendments presented...
- News items in the archive
- 148
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Myanmar (Burma) 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 148 news items on Myanmar (Burma), from 1999 to today.
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APRIL 15, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: REGIME HANDS MENTALLY ILL MAN DEATH SENTENCE
A person who suffers from mental illness was sentenced to death along with 18 other people by Myanmar’s military regime on 8 April 2021 after being accused of banditry and murder in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, in late March.
APRIL 14, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: SEVEN MORE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY COURT-MARTIAL
Myanmar's state-run television reported on 13 April 2021 that seven people had been sentenced to death by court-martial for their roles in the killing of a woman who purportedly cooperated with the military.
- APRIL 10, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: 19 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ASSOCIATE OF OFFICER
Nineteen people have been sentenced to death in Myanmar for killing an associate of an army captain in a district of Yangon, the military owned Myawaddy television station said on 9 April 2021.
MARCH 17, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MILITARY IMPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR TREASON, DISSENT
Amid growing violence in Myanmar following the 1st February coup, the ruling military on 16 March imposed a death penalty as a possible punishment for treason, dissent, and other offenses against the government.
FEBRUARY 15, 2021Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: JUNTA PARDONS OVER 23,000 PRISONERS AS PROTESTS CONTINUE
Myanmar's new military-led State Administration Council on 12 February 2021 announced the remittances of more than 23,000 prisoners, both local and foreigners, as protests against the coup continued for a seventh consecutive day.
APRIL 19, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MORE THAN 24,000 PRISONERS PARDONED IN AMNESTY
Myanmar began releasing tens of thousands of inmates on 17 April 2020 after President Win Myint announced an amnesty on the first day of the traditional New Year.
- MARCH 3, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 3, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
In Myanmar (formerly Burma) capital crimes are: murder,
JANUARY 16, 2020Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR LOVE TRIANGLE MURDER
A local court in Ayeyarwady Region sentenced a former healthcare assistant to death by hanging on 13 January 2020 for murdering a schoolteacher and hiding the corpse after a love triangle turned violent in 2016.
- JULY 2, 2019Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: GUNMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY IN MANDALAY
Mandalay District Court on 27 June 2019 sentenced a man to death for an armed robbery that resulted in the death of a woman in Chan Mya Tharsi township in Mandalay Region.
FEBRUARY 18, 2019Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SUU KYI AIDE
A court in Myanmar on 15 February 2019 sentenced two men to death for the killing of a prominent Muslim lawyer who was a close adviser to the country’s top leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
BURMA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER OF 19-YEAR-OLD STUDENT
The Kyaukse Township court sentenced three men involved in the killing of a student from the Kyaukse Government Technical Institute on 19 November 2018.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Kengtung District Court in eastern Shan State on September 17, 2018 ruled that two men to be hanged till death for rape and murder of a 19-year-old tenth grader, according to Shan State Police Force.
JUNE 19, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: PARLIAMENT VOTES DOWN DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD RAPISTS
Myanmar’s parliament voted down a proposal to give the death penalty to convicted child rapists
APRIL 18, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: PRESIDENT GRANTS GENERAL AMNESTY FOR 8541 PRISONERS
President Win Myint granted a general amnesty for 8541 prisoners including 36 prisoners of conscience and 51 foreign ones to mark Myanmar New Year day which falls on April 17.
MARCH 23, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MANDALAY COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DIE FOR CHILD RAPE
A Mandalay court sentenced to death a man for raping a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Madaya township last month.
FEBRUARY 23, 2018Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: FOUR ROHINGYAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ATTACK ON POLICE OUTPOST
Four Rohingya militants were sentenced to death by a special court in Maungdaw district of Rakhaine state in Myanmar, according to a report by The Irrawaddy news magazine.
- JUNE 22, 2017Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: 'EXORCIST' SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER KILLING TWO TODDLERS AND AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD BABY
A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he believed would banish evil spirits that possessed them.
FEBRUARY 10, 2017Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: ROHINGYA MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAID ON POLICE POST
Myanmar's authorities sentenced a Rohingya man to death for leading raids on police border posts that sparked a deadly military crackdown in Rakhine State.
- OCTOBER 5, 2016Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Parliament voted to abolish the Emergency Provisions Act, which was widely applied by the former military government to stifle political activists by threatening harsh penalties, including a potential death sentence for leaking state secrets.
Parliament voted to abolish the Emergency Provisions Act, which was widely applied by the former military government to stifle political activists by threatening harsh penalties, including a potential death sentence for leaking state secrets.
- MARCH 14, 2016Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: WA AUTHORITIES SAY 2 MEN EXECUTED IN SELF-RULING REGION
Two people found guilty of murder were executed on March 13 in the autonomous Wa Special Region, according to local sources.
- JANUARY 22, 2016Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
President Thein Sein pardoned another 102 prisoners, including 52 political prisoners. As well as those
President Thein Sein pardoned another 102 prisoners, including 52 political prisoners. As well as those
- DECEMBER 4, 2015Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: DOUBLE COP KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RANGOON
Rangoon’s Southern District Court handed down the death penalty to a man found guilty of murdering two
MARCH 9, 2015Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: 15 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2011 GANG MURDER
A Myanmar court has sentenced 15 men to death for stabbing and killing a man outside a busy restaurant in
JANUARY 7, 2015Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: TAUNGOO BOMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
An ethnic Karen man was found guilty of the murder of two persons in connection with the bombing of a
- JANUARY 1, 2015Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
In Myanmar (formerly Burma) capital crimes are: murder
In Myanmar (formerly Burma) capital crimes are: murder
- JULY 22, 2014Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NEAR BEHEADING CASE
A man who murdered another man by nearly beheading him for bumping his shoulder has been sentenced to
- JANUARY 2, 2014Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES, JAIL TERMS
Myanmar's president commuted the death sentences of some convicts and slashed the jail terms of others
- JANUARY 1, 2014Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
In Myanmar (formerly Burma) capital crimes are: murder
In Myanmar (formerly Burma) capital crimes are: murder
- MARCH 1, 2013ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MEKONG RIVER MURDERERS EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION
Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham, who was convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the