Capital punishment in Somalia is legal. The death penalty is the most severe punishment in the country, and is reserved for capital crimes.
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Methods
Military firing squads are officially used for capital crime offenses. They are reserved for capital crimes like treason, sabotage, desertion and mutiny. Methods such as stoning and hanging are also used, but are not as common as military firing squads.
Capital crimes
Seventeen Articles in the national law officially provide for the death penalty for capital crimes. These include:
"committing offences adverse or damaging to the independence, unity and security of the Somali State"
utilizing weapons against the State when it is at war
establishing organizations "whose purpose and work is hostile to the security of the Somali State"
conspiring with a foreign power
engaging in armed banditry
"using religion for the purpose of breaking up the unity of the Somali people or weakening or damaging the authority of the Somali state"
engaging in trade with a nation hostile to the Somali Democratic Republic
displaying or disseminating information "aimed at damaging the sovereignty of the revolution of the Somali nation"