Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.

Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Art. 16 of the Moroccan penal code provides the death penalty for aggravated murder, torture, armed robbery, arson, treason, desertion and attempt on the King's life.
A new anti-terrorist law passed by parliament in May 2003 broadened the range of capital crimes by making ordinary crimes punishable by life imprisonment under the Criminal Code eligible for the death penalty if designated as terrorist crimes.
The death penalty is subject to pardon, which remains the constitutional prerogative of the Sovereign. King Mohammed VI has never yet signed a death warrant since taking power in July 1999.
On August 6, 2003 Moroccan Justice Minister Mohamed Bouzoubaa declared himself in favour of the abolition of the death penalty in the country. He said that a debate amongst Moroccan jurists on the death penalty was increasingly oriented towards abolition.
By October 2003, the number of death row inmates in Morocco had reached 156, according to local human rights groups. The last execution in Morocco was carried out in 1993. Then, a police commissioner named Mohammed Tabet, head of general intelligence in the north African country, was sentenced to death and executed shortly afterwards for abusing his position and raping hundreds of women and young girls.