List of most recent executions by jurisdiction

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This is a list of the most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. Executions performed in the territory of a current nation when it was a colony or before the nation gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.

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Africa

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Algeria	1993-08[1]	7 Islamists	terrorism
	Angola	0000-00-00 never used[2]
	Benin	1987-09-23[3]		murder
	Botswana	2009-12-18[4]	Gerald Dube	murder	hanging
	Burkina Faso	1988[3]		murder
	Burundi	2000[5]	2 soldiers	murder
	Cameroon	1997-01[6]	unnamed man		hanging
	Cape Verde	0000-00-00 none since independence[3]
	Central African Republic	1981[7]
	Chad	2003[8]
	Comoros	1997[9]
	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2006-01-09[10]	unnamed soldier	murder	firearm
	Congo	1982-10[11]	2 men	murder	firing squad
	Côte d'Ivoire	0000-00-00 none since independence (1960-08-07)[3]
	Djibouti	0000-00-00 none since independence (1977-06-27)[12]
	Egypt	2011-10-10[13]	Hamam El-Kamony	murder	hanging
	Equatorial Guinea	2010-08-21[14]	Jose Abeso Nsue, Manuel Ndong Anseme, Alipio Ndong Asumu, and Jacinto Micha Obiang	terrorism and treason	firearm
	Eritrea
	Ethiopia	2007-08-06[15]	Major Tsehaye Woldesellasie	murder	firearm
	Gabon	1981[16]			firing squad
	Gambia	1981-09-30[6]	Mustapha Danso	murder	hanging
	Ghana	1993-07-12[6]	12 men	murder and robbery	firearm
	Guinea	2001-04-21[3][17]	3 people	robbery	firearm
	Guinea-Bissau	1986[18]
	Kenya	1987-07-09[6]	Hezekiah Ochuka and Pancras Oteyo Okumu	treason	hanging
	Lesotho	1984[6]	6 people	treason
	Liberia	1995-11[3]	7 commanders of the Conseil de paix au Libéria	war crimes	firearm
	Libya	2010-05-30[19]	18 unnamed men	murder	firearm
	Madagascar	0000-00-00 none since independence (1960-06-26)[20]
	Malawi	1992-09-26[6][21]			hanging
	Mali	1980-08-21[3][22]	Mamadou Keita and Karuba Coulibaly	murder	firearm
	Mauritania	1987[3]	3 armed forces officers	treason
	Mauritius	1987-10-10[6]	Eshan Nayeck	murder	hanging
	Morocco	1993[23]	Mohammed Tabet	rape
	Mozambique	1986-05[6]
	Namibia	1988-05[6]	Sagarias Ariseb	murder	hanging
	Niger	1976[3]	Bayéré Moussa, Sidi Mohamed, and Ahmed Mouddour	treason
	Nigeria	2006[24]			hanging
	Rwanda	1998-04-24[25]	Froduald Karamira and at least 21 others	genocide	firing squad
	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	1976
	São Tomé and Príncipe	0000-00-00 none since independence (1975-07-12)[2]
	Senegal	1967-06-15[26][27]	Moustapha Lô	treason (attempted murder of the president)	firing squad
	Seychelles	0000-00-00 none since independence (1976-06-29)[2]
	Sierra Leone	1998-10-19[6]	24 soldiers (23 men, 1 woman)	high treason	public firing squad
	Somalia	2011-09-20[28]	Jama Abdulle Abdullahi	murder	firearm
	Somaliland
	South Africa	1989-11-14[6]	Solomon Ngobeni	murder	hanging
	Bophuthatswana	1990-12-13[6][29]	Alpheus Sekoboane	murder	hanging
	Ciskei
	Transkei
	Venda	1991-01-31[6]	John Tsakani Chauke		hanging
	Sudan	2011-05-13[30]	two unnamed women	murder	hanging
	Swaziland	1983-07-02[6]	Philippa Mdluli	murder	hanging
	Tanzania	1994-10[6]	7 unnamed men, 1 unnamed woman
	Togo	1978[3]	M. Adjata Koffi	murder
	Tunisia	1991[31]
	Uganda	2003-03-03[6]	Richard Wigiri, Kambacho Ssenyonji, and Alfred Okech	murder	hanging
	Zambia	1997-10[6]	Abraham Kasongo, Nelson Ngindano, Dennis Chembe, Robert Mulumbi, David Kapunga, John Gombo, Joe Chilada and Christopher Oldfield	murder	hanging
	Zimbabwe	2003-06-13[6]	Stephen Chidhumo, Elias Chauke, William Mukurugunye, and John Nyamazana	murder	hanging

Asia

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Afghanistan	2011-06-20[32]	Zar Ajam and "Matiullah"	murder and rape	hanging
	Armenia	1991-08-30[33]	unnamed man	murder	single firearm
	Azerbaijan	1992[34]
	Bahrain	2010-07-08[35]	Jassim Abdulmanan	murder	firearm
	Bangladesh	2011-09-06[28]	Nazmul Sakib	murder	hanging
	Bhutan	1964[36]
	Brunei	0000-00-00 none since independence (1984-01-01)[6]
	Myanmar	1980s
	Cambodia	1989
	China	2011-09-29[28]	Li Changkui	murder	lethal injection
	Taiwan	2011-03-04[37][38]	Kuan Chung-yen, Wang Kuo-hua, Chung Teh-shu, Wang Chih-huang and Chuang Tien-chu	(respectively) serial robbery; murder; sexual assault; drug trafficking; arson	firearm
	Hong Kong	1966-11-16[39]	a Vietnamese man named 黃啟基	robbery and murder	hanging
	Timor-Leste	0000-00-00 none since independence (2002-05-20)[2]
	India	2004-08-14[6][40]	Dhananjoy Chatterjee	torture murder	hanging
	Indonesia	2008-11-09[41]	Imam Samudra, Amrozi, Ali Ghufron	mass murder and terrorism	firing squad
	Iran	2011-10-27[13]	Bakhshali Asgari	murder	hanging
	Iraq	2010-01-25[42]	Ali Hassan al-Majid	mass murder	hanging
	Israel	1962-05-31	Adolf Eichmann	crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people	hanging
	Japan	2010-07-28[35]	Kazuo Shinozawa and Hidenori Ogat	murder	hanging
	Jordan	2006-03-11	Salem bin Suweid and Yasser Freihat	murder of U.S. diplomat	hanging
	Kazakhstan	2003
	North Korea	2011-01-03[43]	unnamed man and unnamed woman	treason	firearm
	South Korea	1997-12-31[44]	23 people	unknown; possibly political failures	hanging
	Kuwait	2007-05-20[45]	Khan Anwar Islam	drug possession	hanging
	Kyrgyzstan	0000-00-00 none since independence (1991-12-25)
	Laos	1989[46]
	Lebanon	2004-01-17[47]	3 men	murder
	Macau
	Malaysia	2008[48]			hanging
	Maldives	0000-00-00 none since independence (1965-07-26)[6]
	Mongolia	2005[49]
	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	0000-00-00 never used
	Nepal	1979[50]
	Oman	2001[51]
	Pakistan	2008-08-19[52]	Manzoor Ahmed	murder	hanging
	Palestinian National Authority	2011-07-26[53]	"M.A.Q." and "R.A.Q."	collaboration	hanging
	Philippines	2000
	Qatar	2003-03-10[54]	Arun Abraham	murder
	Saudi Arabia	2011-10-27[13]	Mohammed al-Harbi	murder	public beheading by sword
	Singapore	2009-01-09[55]	Tan Chor Jin	murder	hanging
	Sri Lanka	1976-06-23[6]	Chardradasa Jayasinghe	murder	hanging
	Syria	2007-10-25[56]	Ridhwan Abdulqadr Hassan Mohammed, Kheiro Khalif al-Fares, Abdulhayi Feisal Abdulhayi, Saleh Boussef Mahmoud, and Hassan Hamed Khalouf	murder	public hanging
	Tajikistan	2004-04[57]	Rachabmurod Chumayev, Umed Idiyev, Akbar Radzshabov, and Mukharam Fatkhulloyev
	Thailand	2009-08-24[58]	Bundit Jaroenwanit and Jirawat Poompreuk	drug offences	lethal injection
	Turkmenistan	1997[2]
	United Arab Emirates	2011-02-10[59]	Rashid Rubaih Al Rashidi	murder	firearm
	Uzbekistan	2004-08-10[33] (last known)	Azizbek Karimov and Yusuf Zhumayev		single firearm
	Vietnam	2010-10-28[60]	Van Dinh Hieu	murder	firearm
	Yemen	2010-07-05[35]	Akram al-Samawi	murder and rape	firearm

Europe

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Abkhazia	0000-00-00 never used
	Albania	1995-06-29[33]		murder	hanging
	Andorra	1943-10-18[33]	Antoni Areny	murder	firing squad
	Austria	1950-03-24[33]	Johann Trnka	murder	hanging
	Belarus	2011-07-20[53]	Aleh Hryshkawtsow and Andrey Burdyka	murder	firearm
	Belgium	1950-08-09[33]	Philipp Schmitt	war crimes	firing squad
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1975[33] (as a republic of Yugoslavia)
	Bulgaria	1989-11-04[33]		murder	firing squad
	Croatia	1973 (as a republic of Yugoslavia)[33]			firing squad
	Cyprus	1962-06-13[33]	Hambis Zacharia, Michael Hiletikos and Lazaris Demetriou	murder	hanging
	Czech Republic	1989-02-02[33] (as a republic of Czechoslovakia)	Vladimir Lulek	murder	hanging
	Denmark	1950-06[33]		war crimes	firing squad
	Estonia	1991-09-11[33]	Rein Oruste	murder	single firearm
	Finland	1944[33]		war crimes	firing squad
	France	1977-09-10[33]	Hamida Djandoubi	torture murder	beheading by guillotine
	Georgia	1995[33]		murder	single firearm
	Germany	0000-00-00 none since reunification (1990-10-03)[33]
	East Germany	1981-06-26[33]	Werner Teske	treason	single firearm
	West Germany	1949-02-18[33][61]	Richard Schuh	murder	beheading by guillotine
	Gibraltar	1944-01-11[33]	Luis Lopez Corden-Cuenca and Jose Martin Munoz	war crimes	hanging
	Greece	1972-08-25[33]	Vassils Lymberis	murder	firing squad
	Guernsey	1854-02-10[33]	John Tapner	murder	hanging
	Hungary	1988-05-31[33]	Vadász Ernő	torture murder	hanging
	Iceland	1830-01-12[33]	Fridrik Sigurdsson and Agnes Magnusdottir	murder	beheading
	Ireland	1954-04-20[33]	Michael Manning	murder	hanging
	Italy	1947-03-04[33]	Giovanni D'Ignoti, Giovanni Puleo, and Francesco La Barbero	murder	firing squad
	Jersey	1959-10-09[33]	Francis Joseph Huchet	murder	hanging
	Kosovo	0000-00-00 none since disputed independence (2008)
	Latvia	1996-01[33]	Rolans Bertmanus-Lackeus	murder	single firearm
	Liechtenstein	1785-02-26[33]	Barbara Erni	theft	beheading
	Lithuania	1995-07-12[33]	Boris Dekanidze	murder	single firearm
	Luxembourg	1949-02-24[33]		treason	firing squad
	Macedonia	1988[33] (as a republic of Yugoslavia)		murder	firing squad
	Malta	1943-07-05[33]	Karmnu Zammit and Guiseppi Zammit	murder	hanging
	Isle of Man	1872-08-01[33]	John Kewish	patricide	hanging
	Moldova	0000-00-00 none since independence[2]
	Monaco	1847[33]		murder	beheading by guillotine
	Montenegro	0000-00-00 none since independence
	Netherlands	1952-03-21[33]	W. A. Albrecht	war crimes	firing squad
	Norway	1948-08-29[33]	Ragnar Skancke	treason	firing squad
	Poland	1988-04-21[33]	Stanisław Czabański	murder	hanging
	Portugal	1846-04-22[33]		murder	hanging
	Romania	1989-12-25[33]	Nicolae Ceauşescu and Elena Ceauşescu	genocide, crimes against the state	firing squad
	Russia	1996-08-02[33]	Sergey Golovkin	murder	single firearm
	San Marino	1468[33]			hanging
	Serbia	1992-02[33]	unnamed man	murder	firing squad
	Slovakia	1989-06-08[33] (as a republic of Czechoslovakia)	Stefan Svitek	murder	hanging
	Slovenia	1957[33] (as a republic of Yugoslavia)		murder	hanging
	South Ossetia	0000-00-00 never used
	Spain	1975-09-27[33]	José Humberto Francisco Baena Alonso, Ramón García Sanz, José Luis Sánchez-Bravo Sollas, Juan Paredes Manotas and Angel Otaegui Echevarría	murder	firing squad
	Sweden	1910-11-23[33]	Johan Alfred Andersson Ander	murder	beheading by guillotine
	Switzerland	1944-12-07[33]		treason	beheading by guillotine
	Transnistria	0000-00-00 never used
	Turkey	1984-10-25[33]	Hidir Aslan	murder	hanging
	Northern Cyprus	0000-00-00 never used
	Ukraine	1997-03-11[33]	unnamed man	murder	single firearm
	United Kingdom	1964-08-13[33]	Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans	murder in the course of theft	hanging
	Vatican City	1870-07-09[33] (as the Papal States) (never used as Vatican City, established 1929-02-11)[62]	Agabito Bellomo	murder	beheading by guillotine

North America and Caribbean

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Antigua and Barbuda	1991-02-02[6]	Tyrone Nicholas	murder	hanging
	Bahamas	2000-01-06[6]	David Mitchell	murder	hanging
	Barbados	1984-10-10[6]	Noel Jordan, Melvin Inniss, and Errol Farrell		hanging
	Belize	1985-06-19[6]	Kent Bowers	murder	hanging
	Bermuda	1977-12-03[6]	Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn	murder	hanging
	Canada	1962-12-11[6]	Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas	murder	hanging
	Costa Rica	1859
	Cuba	2003-04-11[63]	3 men	ferry hijacking (with intent of sailing to Florida)	firing squad
	Dominica	1986-08-08[6]	Frederick Newton	murder resulting from attempted coup	hanging
	Dominican Republic	1966
	El Salvador	1973[64]
	Grenada	1978-10-17[6]	Charles Ferguson	murder	hanging
	Guatemala	2000-06-20[65]	Tomás Cerrate Hernández and Luis Amílcar Cetino Pérez	murder	lethal injection
	Haiti	1972[66]
	Honduras	1940[67]
	Jamaica	1988-02-18[6]	Nathan Foster and Stanford Dinnal	murder	hanging
	Mexico	1961[68]	Isaías Constante Laureano	murder	firing squad
	Nicaragua	1930[69]
	Panama	1903[70]
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2008-12-19[71]	Charles Laplace	murder	hanging
	Saint Lucia	1995-10-17[6]	Joseph Solomon	murder	hanging
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1995-02-13[6]	Douglas Hamlet, Franklin Thomas, and David Thomas	murder	hanging
	Trinidad and Tobago	1999-07-28[6]	Anthony Briggs	murder	hanging
	Turks and Caicos Islands	0000-00-00 never used

United States

#	State	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	United States Federal Government	2003-03-18	Louis Jones, Jr.	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	United States military	1961-04-13	John A. Bennett	rape and attempted murder	hanging
	Alabama	2011-10-20[13][72]	Christopher Johnson	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Alaska	0000-00-00 never used[73]
	Arizona	2011-07-19[72][53]	Thomas Paul West	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Arkansas	2005-11-28	Eric Nance	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	California	2006-01-17	Clarence Ray Allen	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Colorado	1997-10-13	Gary Lee Davis	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Connecticut	2005-05-13	Michael Bruce Ross	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Delaware	2011-07-29[72][53]	Robert W. Jackson III	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Florida	2011-11-15[74]	Oba Chandler	rape and aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Georgia	2011-09-21[72][28]	Troy Anthony Davis	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Hawaii	0000-00-00 never used
	Idaho	2011-11-18[75]	Paul Rhoades	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Illinois	1999-03-17	Andrew Kokoraleis	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Indiana	2009-12-11[4][76]	Matthew Eric Wrinkles	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Iowa	1962-09-06[77]	Charles A. Kelly	murder	hanging
	Kansas	1965-06-22	George York and James Latham	murder	hanging
	Kentucky	2008-11-21[41]	Marco Allen Chapman	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Louisiana	2010-01-07[42][78]	Gerald J. Bordelon	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Maine	1885-11-21	Daniel Wilkinson	murder	hanging
	Maryland	2005-12-05	Wesley Baker	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Massachusetts	1947-05-09[79]	Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson	murder	electric chair
	Michigan	0000-00-00 never used
	Minnesota	1906-02-13[80]	William Williams	murder	hanging
	Mississippi	2010-05-17[30]	Rodney Gray	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Missouri	2011-02-09[59]	Martin Link	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Montana	2006-08-11	David Thomas Dawson	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Nebraska	1997-12-02	Robert E. Williams	aggravated murder	electric chair
	Nevada	2006-04-26	Daryl Linnie Mack	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	New Hampshire	1939-07-14	Howard Long	murder	hanging
	New Jersey	1963-01-22	Ralph Hudson	murder	electric chair
	New Mexico	2001-11-06	Terry D. Clark	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	New York	1963-06-15	Eddie Mays	murder	electric chair
	North Carolina	2006-08-18	Samuel Russell Flippen	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	North Dakota	1905-10-17[81]	John Rooney	murder	hanging
	Ohio	2011-11-15[72]	Reginald Brooks	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Oklahoma	2011-01-11[82][43]	Jeffrey David Matthews	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Oregon	1997-05-16	Harry Charles Moore	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Pennsylvania	1999-07-06	Gary M. Heidnik	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Rhode Island	1845-02-14	John Gordon	murder	hanging
	South Carolina	2011-05-06[30]	Jeffrey Motts	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	South Dakota	2007-07-11	Elijah Page	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Tennessee	2009-12-02[4][83]	Cecil Johnson, Jr.	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Texas	2011-11-16[84]	Guadalupe Esparza	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Utah	2010-06-18[78][85]	Ronnie Lee Gardner	aggravated murder	firing squad
	Vermont	1954-12-08	Donald DeMag	murder	electric chair
	Virginia	2011-08-18[72]	Jerry Jackson	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	Washington	2010-09-10[78][86]	Cal Coburn Brown	aggravated murder	lethal injection
	West Virginia	1959-04-03	Elmer Brunner	aggravated murder	electric chair
	Wisconsin	1851-08-21	John McCaffary	murder	hanging
	Wyoming	1992-01-22	Mark Hopkinson	aggravated murder	lethal injection

Oceania

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Cook Islands	0000-00-00 none since self-government (1965-08-04)
	Fiji	0000-00-00 none since independence (1970-10-10)[6]
	Kiribati	0000-00-00 none since independence (1979-07-12)[6]
	Marshall Islands	0000-00-00 none since independence (1986-10-21)[87]
	Federated States of Micronesia	0000-00-00 none since independence (1986-11-03)[88]
	Nauru	0000-00-00 none since independence (1968-01-31)[6]
	New Zealand	1957-02-17[6]	Walter James Bolton	murder	hanging
	Niue	0000-00-00 never used
	Palau	0000-00-00 none since independence (1994-10-01)[2]
	Papua New Guinea	0000-00-00 none since independence (1975-09-16)[6][89]
	Samoa	0000-00-00 none since independence (1962-01-01)[6]
	Solomon Islands	0000-00-00 none since independence (1978-07-07)[6]
	Tonga	1982-09-07[6]	Haloti Sole, Livingi Sole, and Fili Esau	murder	hanging
	Tuvalu	0000-00-00 none since independence (1978-10-01)[6]
	Vanuatu	0000-00-00 none since independence (1980-07-30)[6]

Australia

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Government of Australia	1951-06-12	Takuma Nishimura	war crimes	hanging
	Australian Capital Territory	0000-00-00 never used
	New South Wales	1939-08-24[6]	John Kelly	murder	hanging
	Northern Territory	1952-08-07[6]	Jaroslav Koci and Jan Novotnywere	murder	hanging
	Queensland	1913-09-22[6]	Ernest Austin	murder	hanging
	South Australia	1964-11-24[6]	Glen Sabre Valance	murder	hanging
	Tasmania	1946-02-14[6]	Frederick Thompson	murder	hanging
	Victoria	1967-02-03[6]	Ronald Ryan	murder	hanging
	Western Australia	1964-10-26	Eric Edgar Cooke	murder	hanging

South America

#	Country	Last execution date	Name	Crime	Method
	Argentina	1916[90]
	Bolivia	1974[91]
	Brazil	1855[92]
	Chile	1985[93]	Carlos Topp Collins and Jorge Sagredo	murder	firearm
	Colombia	1909[94]
	Ecuador	1884[95]
	Guyana	1997-08[6]	Michael Archer and Peter Adams	murder	hanging
	Paraguay	1928[96]
	Peru	1979[97]
	Suriname	1982-03-13[98][99]	Wilfred Hawker	treason	firing squad
	Uruguay	1905[100]
	Venezuela	0000-00-00 never used

See also

• Use of capital punishment by nation

References

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