[3][4] Eswatini is not a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; likewise, they are also not a party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which specifically pertains to the abolition of capital punishment.
[7] The most recent executions in Eswatini occurred on 2 July 1983, when eight people, seven men and one woman, were hanged in the capital, Mbabane, for various crimes.
The woman was a 48-year-old restaurant owner named Phillipa Mdluli, who murdered her employee's 2-year-old daughter for her body parts in a perversion of muti, a traditional natural medicine practice in southern Africa.
[8][9] In March 1998, cattle farmer Daniel Mbhundlana Dlamini was sentenced to death for a ritual murder of a 9-year-old boy.
[7] On 1 April 2011, David Thabo Simelane, a serial killer who was responsible for between 28 and 45 murders of women and children, received the death penalty nine days after a jury convicted him.
Authorities believed that Simelane began murdering people in the 1990s and continued until 25 April 2001, when a tip led police to arrest him.