Capital punishment in Senegal

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Capital punishment was abolished in Senegal in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/6665/2017/en/|title=Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)|accessdate=26 July 2022|date=23 October 2018|publisher=Amnesty International}} The country carried out its last execution in 1967.{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/6665/2017/en/|title=Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)|accessdate=26 July 2022|date=23 October 2018|publisher=Amnesty International}}

Senegal is not a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.{{cite web|url=https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-12&chapter=4|title=12. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty|publisher=United Nations Treaty Collection|accessdate=26 July 2022}} It did not vote during the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution in 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.ecpm.org/wp-content/uploads/flyer-moratoire-GB-2020-211220.pdf|title=UN Resolution for a Universal Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty|accessdate=26 July 2022|publisher=Ensemble contre la peine de mort|archive-date=24 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924201528/https://www.ecpm.org/wp-content/uploads/flyer-moratoire-GB-2020-211220.pdf|url-status=dead}}