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
- 334
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 334 news items on Sudan, from 1999 to today.
In Sudan the death penalty applies to murder, offences against the state and offences under sharia law, and the method is hanging. Reforms in recent years have shortened the list of punishable offences, but the conflict has left the judicial picture fragmented.
The archive gathers sentences, executions and the individual cases the association follows.
Latest news
- APRIL 1, 1999SudanDEATH PENALTY
In April, Judge el-Amin el-Tayeb sentenced 10 people...
In April, Judge el-Amin el-Tayeb sentenced 10 people to death by crucifixion for initiating the clashes in the state of West Darfur in February, when some 131 people were killed and 85 wounded
- MARCH 13, 1999SudanDEATH PENALTY
On March 13, Ahmed Hussein and 8 others were condemned...
On March 13, Ahmed Hussein and 8 others were condemned to death by hanging for looting, by a special tribunal in Niyala
- MARCH 1, 1999SudanDEATH PENALTY
In March, the director-general of the central prison...
In March, the director-general of the central prison of Kober in Khartoum North, Gen
- JANUARY 1, 1999SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese Penal Code is part of the 1983 Shari'a...
The Sudanese Penal Code is part of the 1983 Shari'a law, introduced by the deposed dictator Numeiri and carried over by the National Islamic Front (NIF) and the present military junta