Somalia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 5
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 15
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In January, Majertein militia loyal to Mohamed Said...
- News items in the archive
- 477
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Somalia is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 5 executions in the country, against 15 the year before. The archive holds 477 news items on Somalia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
some 160 Somali religious scholars have issued a fatwa denouncing Al-Shabaab, saying the group had no
some 160 Somali religious scholars have issued a fatwa denouncing Al-Shabaab, saying the group had no
- AUGUST 26, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES A JOURNALIST’S KILLER TO DEATH
- AUGUST 24, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES FOUR AL-SHABAAB SUSPECTS
- AUGUST 21, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: SEVEN AL-SHABAAB MEMBERS RECEIVE DEATH PENALTY
- AUGUST 17, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: FORMER ARMY SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND
- AUGUST 14, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES TWO MEN IN LOWER JUBA
AUGUST 7, 2014KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: AL-SHABAAB SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED TO SOMALIA
Kenya has agreed to Somalia's request to extradite a Somali citizen believed to be senior al-Shabaab
AUGUST 3, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: THREE MEN CONVICTED OF AL-SHABAB TERROR ATROCITIES ARE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
Three men involved in a deadly terrorist attack on the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu have been executed
- JULY 24, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: COURT CARRIES OUT DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FOUR SHABAB FIGHTERS
Somalia’s military court carried out the death penalty against four Shabab fighters founded guilty of ant-
JULY 23, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN DINSOR
Al-Shabaab militants in Dinsor, in Somalia's Bay region, publically executed a 14-year-old girl accused of
- JULY 15, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: ALLEGED AL-SHABAAB MEMBERS EXECUTED
Two alleged members of Al-Shabaab militia convicted of murdering a female student were executed by
JULY 13, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTE TWO YOUNG MEN IN BARAWE
Somali islamist militants al Shabaab executed two Somali young men in Barawe, the main military base for
JULY 7, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES AL-SHABAAB MEMBER TO DEATH
Liban Ali Yarow, Somali Military Court Chairman, sentenced Awiye Ahmed Jama’ to death for a bomb
- JUNE 15, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB BEHEADS MAN FOR DRUG
Al-Shabaab militant group beheaded a man who they found guilty of possessing khat, a narcotic stimulus
- JUNE 2, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAB EXECUTES FORMER MEMBERS FOR SPYING
Three men accused of spying for foreign governments were executed by the Somali terror group Al Shabab.
JUNE 1, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PUNTLAND COURT HANDS OUT DEATH SENTENCE TO AL SHABAAB MEMBER
A military court in Somalia's North Eastern State of Puntland has handed out death sentence to Al Shabaab
- MAY 29, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES THREE MEN IN LOWER SHABELLE REGION
Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group has executed three men accused of being spies for the federal
- MAY 25, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MEMBER EXECUTED WITHOUT TRAIL AFTER MILITARY COURT ORDER
A 21-year-old man suspected to be member of Al-Shabaab was shot to death in Dayniile district where he was caught by the Somali armed forces.
- MAY 13, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES A MAN IN PUBLIC
Late in the afternoon, al Shabaab militants executed a man by firing squad in public in Baardheere district in
- MAY 2, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALILAND: COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCES TO A MOTHER AND HER THREE SONS FOR MURDER
The case against a family accused of the brutal death of late Ms Ruqiya Saeed has been concluded.
APRIL 3, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: UN RIGHTS OFFICE CALLS FOR MORATORIUM AFTER ‘HASTY’ EXECUTION OF ALLEGED MURDERER
a man was executed in the Somali town of Kismayo after he was accused of killing an elder on 24 March.
MARCH 31, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCED AN AL-SHABAAB MEMBER TO DEATH
the Military Court of Somalia in Mogadishu sentenced to death an Al-Shabaab member who was found
- MARCH 28, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES THREE ALLEGED FEDERAL GOVT SPIES
Al-Shabaab group executed three men in Barawe, a port town in the Lower Shabelle region. An Al-
- MARCH 25, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights received with shock and deep sadness news that
the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights received with shock and deep sadness news that
- MARCH 11, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES THREE SOLDIERS
the Military High Court of Somalia executed three soldiers who were charged and convicted of killing soldiers and a journalist in Mogadishu in 2013.
- MARCH 6, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
the former President of Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole for the
the former President of Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole for the
- MARCH 5, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: TWO SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PUNTLAND
two soldiers were sentenced to death by the Puntland Military Court, after being convicted of murder.
- MARCH 4, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin
Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin
- MARCH 4, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES THREE MEN FOR 'SPY' ALLEGATIONS
Al-Shabaab executed three men for spy allegations, the militant group announced on its Facebook page.
- JANUARY 6, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: SOLDIER EXECUTED IN MOGADISHU OVER PUPIL MURDER
A firing squad has executed a soldier in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after a military court convicted