Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United Arab Emirates.
Under Emirati law, multiple crimes carry the death penalty, and the sole method of execution is firing squad.[1][2][3][4] Current law allows the death penalty for treason, espionage, murder, successfully inciting the suicide of a mentally ill person, arson resulting in death, indecent assault resulting in death, nuclear waste disposal in the environment, apostasy, rape of a minor, perjury causing wrongful execution, aggravated robbery, terrorism, drug trafficking[4] and joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[3][2] Overseas nationals and UAE nationals have both been executed for crimes. As of 2023, the last known execution occurred in 2017.[5]