Guinea Bissau abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1993.

Guinea Bissau abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1993.
In February of that year the National Assembly approved constitutional amendments to the 1984 constitution guaranteeing fundamental human rights and abolishing the death penalty.
The country had introduced the death penalty in 1974, when it gained independence from Portugal. There was no capital punishment under colonial rule. During the 1980s, opposition to the death penalty gathered strength, leading to its abolition.
The last execution in Guinea Bissau took place in 1986, when six people were executed. They had been condemned to death for conspiring to overthrow the government by the Supreme Military Court. There are some reports that five other people were sentenced to death and executed for aggravated murder between 1985 and 1988.
In 1998 a bitter civil war erupted when Guinea-Bissau's first freely-elected president, former coup leader Joao Vieira, was overthrown by the army. Foreign mediation led to a truce, policed by West African peacekeepers, in 1999.
Kumba Yala was elected president in December 1999 with a 72 percent majority in elections that were generally considered free and fair. He took power in February 2000. Yala’s tenure however was characterised by sackings of ministers and other high officials, and poor financial management that led the World Bank/IMF to suspend aid. Yala repeatedly postponed new legislative elections and refused to veto or promulgate the new constitution, which was approved by the National Assembly in 2001. He was ousted in a bloodless coup on September 14, 2003 and Henrique Rosa was chosen by the military authorities to be the head of state pending fresh presidential elections, expected in March 2005.