Syria
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 · Aggravated murder, aggravated rape and offenses against...
- News items in the archive
- 152
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Syria 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 152 news items on Syria, from 1999 to today.
In Syria capital punishment applies to murder, terrorism and offences against the state. International organisations have documented summary executions and mass hangings inside prisons, in particular at Saydnaya, outside any verifiable procedure.
The archive gathers the available news, distinguishing sentences handed down from extrajudicial executions.
Latest news
- JULY 22, 1999SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Syria signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Syria signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 1999SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Aggravated murder, aggravated rape and offenses against...
Aggravated murder, aggravated rape and offenses against the State are capital crimes