Capital punishment in the United Arab Emirates

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United Arab Emirates.

Under Emirati law, multiple crimes carry the death penalty, and executions are carried out through a firing squad. 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 and joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Overseas nationals and UAE nationals have both been executed for crimes. As of 2023, the last known execution occurred in 2017.