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
- MAY 14, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SUDANESE MAN FACING EXECUTION IN SAUDI ARABIA OVER 'SORCERY' CHARGES
Amnesty International urged Saudi Arabia to halt the possibly imminent execution of a Sudanese man who was sentenced to death for "sorcery".
- MARCH 18, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN. TWO EXECUTIONS
two Sudanese men were executed for killing four oil workers, two of them Chinese, and looting their vehicle in 2004 at Heglig in Kordofan state
MARCH 4, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SUDANESE MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
a Sudanese driver convicted of murdering his Saudi Arabian employer has
- FEBRUARY 24, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN RELEASES 50 DARFUR REBELS
Sudan released 50 Darfur rebels who had been sentenced to death, under a new truce agreement
JANUARY 19, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: TWO MORE DARFUR REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Sudanese court sentenced another two Darfur rebels to death for a deadly 2008 attack,
JANUARY 17, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES 18 SOLDIERS TO DEATH FOR MUTINY
a Sudanese military court sentenced 18 soldiers to death charging them with insubordination and mutiny
JANUARY 14, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: SIX HANGED FOR DEADLY 2005 RIOTS
Six people were hanged in Sudan's capital for their role in deadly clashes in 2005 between police and residents of a camp for the displaced, the official news agency SUNA reported.
- JANUARY 1, 2010SudanDEATH PENALTY
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
- DECEMBER 16, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY AGAINST US DIPLOMAT ASSASSINS
a Sudanese court rejected the appeal by four men sentenced to death for assassinating a USAID employee John Granville and his driver in 2008
- NOVEMBER 22, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: SIX CHILDREN SENTENCED TO DIE OVER REBEL RAID
Sudan sentenced six children to death for taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum but has since
OCTOBER 25, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: APPEAL FOR DEATH SENTENCES FOR KILLING US DIPLOMAT
the four defendants accused of killing the US diplomat Michael Granville and his Sudanese driver Abd-al-
- OCTOBER 12, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDANESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR FOUR ISLAMISTS
a Sudanese court upheld the death sentences handed to four Islamists for murdering US envoy John
- AUGUST 13, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDANESE DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED
an appeals court in Sudan commuted the death sentences of four men convicted of killing an American diplomat and his Sudanese driver after the driver's family decided to pardon the murderers.
JUNE 29, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the High court in Western Equatoria, Sudan, sentenced Kenneth Kaunda, 45, and
- JUNE 24, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN TO EXECUTE ISLAMISTS FOR KILLING US ENVOY
A Khartoum court condemned four Islamists to death for the 2008 killing of a US
- JUNE 13, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDANESE OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS ON PRESIDENCY NOT TO EXECUTE DARFUR REBELS
the leader of the Sudanese National Ummah Party [NUP], Sadiq al-Mahdi, called upon the presidency institution not to execute the death penalties issued against more than 100 members of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement [JEM], involved in the
- JUNE 9, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: MORE DARFUR REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Sudanese court sentenced another 12 Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on
MAY 20, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: MORE DARFUR REBELS SENT TO DEATH
a Sudanese court sentenced another nine Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on
- APRIL 30, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: SENTENCED TO DEATH, DARFUR MEN FACE ‘HORRIFIC TREATMENT’
the 82 Darfuri men sentenced to death by special courts in Khartoum...
- APRIL 26, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: 11 DARFUR REBELS GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KHARTOUM ATTACK
A Sudanese court sentenced another 11 Darfur rebels to death for a deadly attack on
- APRIL 23, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
nine men who were executed in Sudan for the murder of a journalist...
nine men who were executed in Sudan for the murder of a journalist...
- APRIL 22, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN ORDERS ANOTHER 11 DARFUR REBELS HANGED
a Sudanese court sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death and acquitted five others for an unprecedented 2008 attack on Khartoum.
APRIL 16, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: RIGHTS GROUP CALL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
the Sudan Human Rights Organisation (SHRO) criticised Sudanese Courts for
APRIL 15, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: 10 DARFUR REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Sudanese court condemned 10 rebels from the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement to death for an unprecedented attack on Khartoum in 2008 which killed more than 220 people.
APRIL 13, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: NINE EXECUTED FOR EDITOR'S MURDER
Sudanese authorities executed nine men from Darfur for murder, state media and a police source said.
- MARCH 17, 2009United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
a failed asylum-seeker who was deported from...
a failed asylum-seeker who was deported from the UK to Darfur was executed by Sudanese security officers, The Independent reported.
- JANUARY 1, 2009SudanDEATH PENALTY
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
The crimes punishable by death are murder, armed robbery...
- DECEMBER 4, 2008SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN ASKED EU NOT TO INTERFERE IN DEATH PENALTY
the Sudanese government urged the EU not to interfere in the issue of banning the death sentence as it is related to religious and cultural conceptions.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2008LibyaDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Federal Court of Cassation in Iraq upheld the death sentences imposed by the Criminal Court on six convicts, including two Arab nationals, for murder, abduction and terrorism-related crimes.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2008SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN REJECTS EU PROPOSAL TO FORGO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Sudanese government rejected a proposal by the EU calling for abolishing capital punishment in Sudan in exchange for suspending the bid by the ICC's prosecutor for issuing an arrest warrant against President Umar al-Bashir.