Tanzania
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Murder and treason are capital crimes
- News items in the archive
- 153
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Tanzania is classified as Abolitionist de facto 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 153 news items on Tanzania, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- AUGUST 1, 1999TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
In August, Amnesty International noted that 18 prisoners...
In August, Amnesty International noted that 18 prisoners of conscience faced trial for treason - an offense carrying the death penalty - on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar
- JULY 22, 1999TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Tanzania 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, 1999TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and treason are capital crimes
Murder and treason are capital crimes