Murder, violence and aggression, attacks against the internal security of the State and attacks against the external security of the State are all capital offences.

Murder, violence and aggression, attacks against the internal security of the State and attacks against the external security of the State are all capital offences.
Although Tunisia is retentionist, President Ben Ali almost always grants clemency to condemned prisoners. Ben Ali was due to retire in 2004 but in 2002 he secured support in a referendum for changes to the constitution allowing him a further two terms. On January 14, 2011, a series of street demonstrations and riots, started in December 2010, led to the ousting of _President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ending 23 years in power. Following Ben Ali's departure, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announces an interim national unity government. On 20 January 2011, the new government announced in its first sitting that all banned parties would be legalised and that all political prisoners would be freed. The last execution was carried out in 1991.
On December 18, 2008 and December 21st, 2010, Tunisia was absent during the vote on a the Resolution on Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.