Turkmenistan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · According to Interfax, 700 people were sentenced to...
- News items in the archive
- 38
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Turkmenistan is classified as Abolitionist 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 38 news items on Turkmenistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 24, 2000TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) welcomed the decision taken...
The European Union (EU) welcomed the decision taken by the authorities of Turkmenistan to abolish the death penalty
- DECEMBER 29, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 29, the People's Council decided to abolish...
On December 29, the People's Council decided to abolish the death sentence in the country
- DECEMBER 29, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 29, 1999, the People's Council decided...
On December 29, 1999, the People's Council decided to abolish the death sentence in the country
- DECEMBER 22, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 22, President Niyazov proposed a constitutional...
On December 22, President Niyazov proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty at the Turkmen People's Council, the country's top legislative body
- APRIL 28, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
Turkmenistan was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
Turkmenistan was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28, 1999 (1999/61)
- MARCH 2, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
On March 2, documents for extraditing 3 Georgian citizens...
On March 2, documents for extraditing 3 Georgian citizens sentenced to death by the Askhabad court and later pardoned by the decree of President Niyazov were being prepared in Turkmenistan, Elene Tevdoradze, Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee for P
- JANUARY 6, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
On January 6, President Saparmurat Niyazov signed an...
On January 6, President Saparmurat Niyazov signed an order for a one-year moratorium on executions during a meeting with members of the Supreme Court
- JANUARY 1, 1999TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
According to Interfax, 700 people were sentenced to...
According to Interfax, 700 people were sentenced to death in Turkmenistan in 1998, 90% of them for drug-trafficking