Aggravated murder, treason and spying are capital crimes.

Aggravated murder, treason and spying are capital crimes.
The legal system incorporates Islamic law as well as French legal codes.
On his election in 1996, then president Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarin announced that people found guilty of murder could be condemned to death according to Islamic law.
The first execution since the country became independent in 1975 was carried out on September 18, 1996. Another execution was reported in 1997. No death sentences have been recorded since 1999.
Comoros has endured more than 20 coups, or attempted coups, since gaining independence from France in 1975.
In 2000, the three islands - Moheli, Anjouan and Grande Comore – negotiated the Fomboni Accords, a power-sharing agreement, in which the federal presidency rotates among the three islands and each island maintains its own local government.
On December 20, 2012, Comoros abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.