Sudan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Sudanese Penal Code is part of the 1983 Shari'a...
- News items in the archive
- 331
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Sudan is classified as Retentionist 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 331 news items on Sudan, from 1999 to today.
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AUGUST 2, 2026SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: SIX POLICE OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DETAINEE’S TORTURE DEATH
JULY 12, 2026SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN COURT SENTENCES RSF LEADER HEMETTI TO DEATH OVER WEST DARFUR KILLINGS
FEBRUARY 17, 2026SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: TWO WOMEN FROM EL GEDAREF AND BLUE NILE FACE DEATH BY STONING IN PRISON
Activists and human rights defenders say that two women, from El Gedaref and Blue Nile respectively, are being detained in Omdurman prison in Sudan, sentenced to death by stoning, Radio Dabanga reported on February 4, 2026.
OCTOBER 8, 2024SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: 18 OPPONENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
In September, a court in Dongola sentenced 17 RSF fighters and one civilian to death for an attack on Merowe airport, Sudan Tribune reported on October 4, 2024.
- OCTOBER 7, 2024SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: DEATH SENTENCE IN PORT SUDAN HIGHLIGHTS CRACKDOWN ON RSF SYMPATHIZERS
A Sudanese court has sentenced a man to death for supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), state media reported on October 4, 2024, underscoring the escalating legal crackdown on perceived opponents in areas under military control.
- JUNE 5, 2024SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: MAN AND WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Ed Damazin Court in Blue Nile region issued a death sentence against civil servant El Habib Eisa on June 3, 2024, after he was accused of “undermining the constitutional order.”
- DECEMBER 18, 2022SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO STONING DEATH WILL GO TO JAIL INSTEAD
A Sudanese woman charged with adultery has had her life spared and will instead spend six months behind bars after she admitted to kissing a man.
JULY 11, 2022SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING FOR ADULTERY
A Sudanese court in the southern part of Sudan has sentenced a woman to death by stoning after convicting her of charge of adultery, a Sudanese human rights group disclosed on 9 July 2022.
MARCH 15, 2022SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: INTELLIGENCE AGENT SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
The El Obeid Court in North Kordofan, Sudan, sentenced a member of the General Intelligence Service (GIS) to death by hanging on 14 March 2022.
NOVEMBER 30, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DARFUR FOR RAPING 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A court on 28 November 2021 sentenced a young man to death by hanging for raping 8-year-old girl in Nyala, South Darfur.
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: DEATH SENTENCES FOR SIX PARAMILITARIES FOR THE KILLING OF PROTESTERS IN 2019
Six members of a Sudanese paramilitary force were sentenced to death on 5 August 2021 by a court in the central city of Al-Obeid for the deaths of six protesters in 2019, including four school children.
JULY 6, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: FORMER SECURITY AGENT SENTENCED TO HANG FOR STUDENT’S MURDER
The Special Court convened to try the perpetrators of crimes related to the Sudanese revolution on 27 June 2021 sentenced a former member of the defunct National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) to death by hanging, for murder.
- MAY 25, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING PROTESTER
A Sudanese court sentenced to death on 24 May 2021 a paramilitary officer charged with killing a demonstrator during a deadly breakup of a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, two years ago.
FEBRUARY 11, 2021SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: KHARTOUM AUTHORITIES HANG SOUTH SUDANESE WOMAN
A 39-year-old South Sudanese woman in Khartoum was hanged on 9 February 2021 after being sentenced to death for killing her little sister in Sudan three years ago.
NOVEMBER 7, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: MEROWE COURT SENTENCES KILLER OF GIRL CHILD TO DEATH
Merowe Criminal Court on 2 November 2020 sentenced Awad Adam Hussein to death by hanging for raping and killing the four-year girl child, Areej Samir, at Al-Gorair area, Merowe Locality.
OCTOBER 13, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN EAST DARFUR FOR RAPING A GIRL
A court in East Darfur State has sentenced to death a policeman for raping a thirteen year old girl, Darfur24 reported on 12 October 2020.
- JULY 28, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN FINDS MASS GRAVE BELIEVED TO HAVE BODIES OF OFFICERS EXECUTED BY BASHIR
Sudan has found a mass grave that most likely contains remains of 28 army officers executed in 1990 for plotting an attempted coup against the former president Omar al-Bashir, the public prosecutor office said late on 23 July 2020.
JULY 21, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: BASHIR FACES DEATH SENTENCE OVER HIS 1989 COUP
Former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been summoned to appear before a court over charges of an alleged coup d‘état he staged over 30 years ago.
JULY 16, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: DEATH PENALTY REMOVED FOR GAY SEX, APOSTASY
The Sudan’s Sovereign Council on 9 July 2020 approved new laws, and passed a package of amendments to the existing ones; these amendments are to reform the justice system in Sudan.
JULY 12, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN SCRAPS APOSTASY LAW AND ALCOHOL BAN FOR NON-MUSLIMS
After more than 30 years of Islamist rule, Sudan has outlined wide-reaching reforms including allowing non-Muslims to drink alcohol, and scrapping the apostasy law and public flogging.
JULY 6, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: KORAN TEACHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SEXUAL ABUSE
A court in eastern Sudan’s El Gedaref sentenced an imam to death for sexual abuse of his students at a Koran school, Radio Dabanga reported on 5 July 2020.
- MAY 6, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN TO RETURN REMAINS OF OFFICERS EXECUTED BY BASHIR REGIME
The Sudanese military says the remains of 28 officers who were executed three decades ago will be returned to their families, VOA reported on 7 April 2020.
- MARCH 12, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN PLANS TO REPEAL THE DEATH PENALTY FOR APOSTASY
Sudan plans to decriminalise apostasy this year, a member of a key political group involved in the country's transitional government said.
- JANUARY 29, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: SEVEN PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOUTH DARFUR
Seven people were sentenced to death on 27 January 2020 by a court in Nyala, South Darfur, after being found guilty of killing nine people in September 2017, in the area of Tobasi, 43km south of Nyala.
JANUARY 26, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: 15-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Sudanese cabinet expressed it unease following a court decision to execute a 15-year-old boy, local media reported.
- JANUARY 1, 2020SudanDEATH PENALTY
The 1991 penal code based on Sharia law prescribes both the death penalty and corporal punishment.
The 1991 penal code based on Sharia law prescribes both the death penalty and corporal punishment.
DECEMBER 30, 2019SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: 27 INTELLIGENCE AGENTS SENTENCED TO HANG FOR TEACHER'S KILLING
A Sudanese court sentenced 27 members of the national intelligence service to death by hanging on 30 December 2019 over the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir.
DECEMBER 12, 2019SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Judge Hani Mahjoub of the Criminal Court of Khartoum North sentenced three men to death by hanging for murder, Radio Dabanga reported on 11 December 2019.
DECEMBER 5, 2019SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: RSF OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING CIVILIAN IN EL GENEINA
Capital punishment has been chosen as a sentence for a Rapid Support Forces officer by the Criminal Court of El-Geneina, Sudan, Live Report reported on 4 December 2019.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2019SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: 8 DARFUR REBEL DEATH SENTENCES ANNULLED TO 'BUILD CONFIDENCE'
Sudan said on 19 September 2019 it had annulled death sentences against eight rebels from Darfur, a move aimed at "building confidence" with armed groups as new authorities attempt to bring peace to the war-torn region.