Capital punishment in Namibia

Capital punishment was abolished in Namibia in 1990.^[1] The last execution was carried out in 1988, under the rule of South Africa.^[2]

According to the constitution of the Republic of Namibia, there shall be no executions in Namibia, and no court or tribunal shall impose death as a competent sentence. Namibia acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 28 November 1994.^[3] Namibia voted in favour of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty eight times, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.^[4]