2019 | Last known execution |
Shooting | Method(s) of execution |
No | Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
No | Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty |
Not applicable | Party to the American Convention on Human Rights |
Not applicable | Party to the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty |
No | UN Moratorium Resolution (2010): cosponsor |
Abstained | UN Moratorium Resolution (2010): vote |
Yes | UN Moratorium Resolution (2010): has signed the Note Verbale of Dissociation |
No | UN Moratorium Resolution (2012): cosponsor |
Against | UN Moratorium Resolution (2012): vote |
Yes | UN Moratorium Resolution (2012): has signed the Note Verbale of Dissociation |
No | Does the country have a mandatory death penalty? |
2023-05-23 | Last update |
Source: Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
*Source of classification: Amnesty International
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The Court is Satisfied with the Confession: Bahrain Death Sentences Follow Torture, Sham Trials
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Article
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In a February 2019 letter to the United Nations Office in Geneva, the government of Bahrain claimed that its courts “actually hand down very few death sentences.” In fact, since 2011, courts in Bahrain have sentenced 51 people to death, and the state has executed six since the end of a de facto moratorium on executions in 2017. As of June 2022, 26 men were on death row, and all have exhausted their appeals. Under Bahraini law, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has the power to ratify these sentences, commute them, or grant pardons.
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on 14 January 2022
2022
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Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Central African Republic
China
Comoros
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Dominica
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Grenada
Guinea
Guyana
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Libya
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritania
Mongolia
Moratorium
Myanmar
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Sudan
Suriname
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Thailand
Tonga
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Yemen
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Joint Statement on the Death Penalty in Bahrain
By Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, on 1 January 2015
2015
Multimedia content
Bahrain
More details See the document
Joint statement calling on the government to immediately commute all death sentences; to investigate all allegations of torture made by persons sentenced to death, and to dismiss any and all convictions made on the basis of confessions obtained under conditions of torture; to re-impose a moratorium on the death penalty with a view towards abolishing the practice.
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