Qatar
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 · Murder, offenses against the State and drug offenses...
- News items in the archive
- 105
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Qatar 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 105 news items on Qatar, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2013QatarDEATH PENALTY
Since March 2013, after ten consecutive years without executions...
Since March 2013, after ten consecutive years without executions...
- DECEMBER 31, 2012Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
a 21-year-old Sri Lankan expatriate, identified as Venkadasalam Sudeshkar...
a 21-year-old Sri Lankan expatriate, identified as Venkadasalam Sudeshkar...
- JANUARY 1, 2012QatarDEATH PENALTY
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2011QatarDEATH PENALTY
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
JUNE 9, 2010QatarDEATH PENALTYQATAR INTRODUCES NEW LAW PUNISHING PRE-TRIAL TORTURE
Qatar amended a key provision of the penal code to extensively define torture
- APRIL 25, 2010NepalDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: APPEALS COURT DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE TAXI DRIVERS
the Qatar Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence awarded to three foreign taxi drivers.
- JANUARY 1, 2010QatarDEATH PENALTY
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
- JULY 18, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: WOMAN ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE AFTER BLOOD MONEY ACCEPTED
an expatriate woman facing the firing squad for stabbing her housemaid to death was pardoned after the deceased’s family accepted blood money.
- JULY 14, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR TEEN WHO KILLED AUNT
a Doha appeals court in Qatar upheld the death sentence passed against a teenager by a lower court for the brutal murder of his aunt following a quarrel over money on September 17, 2007.
- JUNE 10, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY SEEKS RETRIAL
a man sentenced to death in absentia by a criminal court in Doha, Qatar, filed a plea for reopening the trial
- JUNE 9, 2009NepalDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR THREE ASIAN MEN IN MURDER CASE
for the second time, a Doha appeals court in Qatar upheld the death penalty of two Indians and a Nepali in a murder case.
- MAY 15, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: TWO CONVICTED OF MURDER GET DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
two young Asians who were sentenced to death by a lower court in Qatar for murdering an acquaintance in 2006 had their sentence commuted by a higher court to varying jail terms
- MAY 10, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO 10 YEARS JAIL
an unidentified man facing death in Qatar for murdering his friend had his sentence commuted to 10 years
- MAY 4, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: DUO’S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED
a Doha appeals court in Qatar commuted the death penalty given to two Bangladeshi men, one a minor, by a lower court to a life sentence and a 10-year imprisonment.
- APRIL 27, 2009Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: DEATH PENALTY IN SRI LANKAN MURDER CASE COMMUTED
a Doha appeals court in Qatar commuted the death penalty given to four Sri Lankans for their involvement in a compatriot’s murder to ten-year imprisonment.
- MARCH 1, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘MANHOLE MURDER’
a man was sentenced to death by firing squad for the “premeditated murder” of a Pakistani compatriot in Doha, Qatar, on January 15, 2007.
- JANUARY 14, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: NATIONAL GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
a Qatari national was given the death penalty for killing a man during a family dispute and the 12 people
- JANUARY 11, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: DEATH PENALTY REPRIEVE
a lower criminal court which sentenced a housewife to face the firing squad for killing her maid had a lighter sentence imposed by the Qatar Court of Appeals, which ruled that the murder was not premeditated.
- JANUARY 1, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
Murder, offences against the State, drug offences and terrorism are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 31, 2008NepalDEATH PENALTY
Qatar’s Supreme Court of Justice ordered the retrial of three Asian men, two Indians and a Nepali, who were handed the death penalty six months ago
Qatar’s Supreme Court of Justice ordered the retrial of three Asian men, two Indians and a Nepali, who were handed the death penalty six months ago
- DECEMBER 30, 2008QatarDEATH PENALTY
Qatar’s Supreme Court of Justice ordered the retrial of a Qatari man who was handed death penalty by an appeal court in a murder case
Qatar’s Supreme Court of Justice ordered the retrial of a Qatari man who was handed death penalty by an appeal court in a murder case
- DECEMBER 29, 2008QatarDEATH PENALTY
a man was sentenced to death following a road rage incident in Qatar in which he fired shots at another motorist
a man was sentenced to death following a road rage incident in Qatar in which he fired shots at another motorist
- DECEMBER 7, 2008EgyptDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: APPEALS COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE IN MAID MURDER CASE
a Doha Appeals Court commuted the death sentence given to a 31 year old Egyptian woman, accused of
- JULY 8, 2008Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Qatar freed a Saudi Arabian sentenced to death...
Qatar freed a Saudi Arabian sentenced to death...
- JUNE 26, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Qatar Court of Appeals upheld the verdict...
the Qatar Court of Appeals upheld the verdict...
- MAY 28, 2008Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: MAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR BEATING DEATH
a Sri Lankan was sentenced to death in Qatar for killing a man as he slept because of an old dispute
- MAY 12, 2008QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR. APPEAL COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE
the Criminal Court of Appeal in Qatar acquitted a resident of charges of murder and setting
- MAY 2, 2008QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: COURT FINDS WOMAN GUILTY OF TORTURING MAID
a woman resident of Doha was found guilty of torturing her maid to death and given the death penalty by the Qatar Upper Criminal Court this week.
- APRIL 28, 2008QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR. MAN GETS DEATH FOR BRUTAL MURDER
a Qatari man was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his aunt following a fight about money. The
- APRIL 6, 2008EgyptDEATH PENALTY
a Doha appeals court in Qatar acquitted an Egyptian man...
a Doha appeals court in Qatar acquitted an Egyptian man...