Mauritius - Committee Against Torture - Death Penalty - March 2025
Date: March 5, 2025
Country: Mauritius
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Committee Against Torture
Report Type: Shadow/Parallel Report
Country: Mauritius
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Committee Against Torture
Report Type: Shadow/Parallel Report
Mauritius abolished the death penalty iMauritius abolished the death penalty in 1995 with the Abolition of Death Penalty Act (No. 31 of 1995).n 1995 with the Abolition of Death Penalty Act (No. 31 of 1995).
Article 4.1 of the Constitution of Mauritius states that “[n]o person shall be deprived of his life
intentionally save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of
which he has been convicted.”
