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.
Latest news
DECEMBER 19, 2012Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SUDANESE MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
A Sudanese man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in the western city of Mecca, the Saudi interior ministry said.
- NOVEMBER 5, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTY
the government of South Kordofan “arrested and summarily executed 16 civilians
the government of South Kordofan “arrested and summarily executed 16 civilians
OCTOBER 15, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
The Nyala criminal court sentenced three men to death by hanging in South Darfur (Sudan
JULY 15, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: DEATH SENTENCE REVOKED FOR SEVEN MEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOHA PEACE AGREEMENT
In Sudan, the government released seven members of the Liberation and Justice Movement
JULY 10, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING FOR ADULTERY
a Sudanese court in Khartoum State sentenced a 23-year-old woman to death by stoning
JULY 3, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: WOMAN WALKS FREE
the Ombada General Criminal Court in Khartoum, Sudan, dismissed the charges of Intisar Sharif Abdallah, an activist and mother of three, who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery under Article 146 of the Sudanese penal code.
JUNE 21, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: FORMER COMMISSIONER IN DARFUR SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER DISCOVERY OF MASS GRAVE
The former commissioner of Al Sunta in South Darfur, Bashar Al Jazam Bushara Nawiya
MAY 14, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: WOMAN REPORTEDLY SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING FOR ADULTERY
A court in the Sudanese capital Khartoum sentenced an unidentified woman to be executed
APRIL 20, 2012Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SUDANESE MAN BEHEADED AND CRUCIFIED
A Sudanese man was the twentieth person this year to be executed in the Kingdom
MARCH 20, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST DARFUR REBELS
A Sudanese court sentenced six members of a key Darfur rebel group to hang
JANUARY 23, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: 8 DARFURIANS RECEIVE DEATH SENTENCE AFTER RAPING GIRL IN KASS
Four men and four women from Kass district, South Darfur were sentenced to death for
- JANUARY 1, 2012SudanDEATH PENALTY
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
- DECEMBER 7, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudanese Security forces opened fire on inmates in El-Fasher prison
Sudanese Security forces opened fire on inmates in El-Fasher prison
- NOVEMBER 29, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
seven prisoners in North Darfur had their death sentences upheld.
seven prisoners in North Darfur had their death sentences upheld.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN CONDEMNS SEVEN DARFUR REBELS TO DEATH
A Sudanese court sentenced seven members of a Darfur rebel group to death by hanging
- NOVEMBER 28, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
LEADING SUDANESE POET ON A DEATH SENTENCE
a tribunal held in a court in Sudan's Sinnar State sentenced 19 people allegedly
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: PARDON SAVES KILLER FROM GALLOWS
a Sudanese man facing execution in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of murdering a
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES MAN CONVICTED OF ‘SORCERY’
Sudanese national Abdul Hamid bin Hussain bin Moustafa al-Fakki was beheaded in
AUGUST 27, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: REBEL LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Sudanese court handed a death sentence to a leader of the Justice and Equality
- MAY 13, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: TWO WOMEN HANGED FOR STONING CHILD
federal prison authorities in Sudan executed two young women by hanging for killing
- FEBRUARY 22, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
a court in Darfur sentenced a man to death by hanging and cross amputation.
a court in Darfur sentenced a man to death by hanging and cross amputation.
- JANUARY 1, 2011SudanDEATH PENALTY
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
- NOVEMBER 11, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: 20 ALLEGED DARFUR REBELS COLLABORATORS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NYALA
the Nyala General Court in Sudan issued death sentences against 20 people accused
- OCTOBER 24, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDANESE COURT SENTENCES KALMA RESIDENT TO DEATH BY HANGING IN DARFUR
a court in Nyala, Sudan, sentenced Kalma camp (in South Darfur) resident Hussein Hassan Abdel Kareem to death by hanging for an alleged attempt to kill a supporter of the Doha peace process, Sudan Tribune reported.
OCTOBER 21, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: SPECIAL COURT IN DARFUR SENTENCES TEN INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING FOUR CHILDREN, TO DEATH
Judge Shegifa Ali Eshag of the Special Court in Nyala sentenced ten people, including four alleged children, allegedly affiliated with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), to death for a carjacking in Khour Baskawit, South Darfur, on May 13, 2010.
- OCTOBER 8, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, SUDAN: END JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY
only three countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan - are known to have executed an individual since the beginning of 2009 for a crime committed before age 18, Human Rights Watch said today.
- OCTOBER 3, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY URGES SAUDI KING TO COMMUTE DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International issued an urgent request to the Saudi Arabian monarch to commute the death sentences of Lebanese television psychic Ali Hussain Sibat and another man, both convicted for practicing black magic in the desert kingdom.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: TWO SUDANESE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING 4 CHINESE
A Sudanese court sentenced two men to death for killing four kidnapped Chinese oil workers
JULY 13, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: PALESTINIAN CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN
in Sudan, Khartoum's criminal court sentenced Palestinian citizen Iyad Hani Mahmud
JUNE 5, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SUDANESE MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Sudanese man Faisal Ali Abdel Ghani Ahmed was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for