Lebanon is retentionist but applies since 2004 a moratorium. In 2018, at least 5 people received a death sentence.
While Lebanon has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1972, it has yet to ratify its Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2).
26 February – 1 March 2019: Honourable Georges Okais, Member of the Committees on Administration and Justice, Foreign Affairs, and Human Rights, PGA member, and former judge, attended the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty, organized by Ensemble contre la peine de mort in Brussels (Belgium).
22 June 2017: Following statements made by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq calling on the death penalty to be effectively carried out in Lebanon, PGA Members and Convenors of the International Law and Human Rights Program Hon. Barbara Lochbihler (MEP, Germany) and Hon. Kula Segaran (Malaysia) sent a letter to Hon. Ghassan Moukheiber, PGA Member, offering their support to the Lebanese MPs willing to block any return of the death penalty in the country.