Bahrain reported that only two persons had been sentenced to death for offences against the person, one adult male (by a military court) and one adult female (by an ordinary criminal court) in the period 1999 2003.

Currently, following the implementation in 2003 of a set of measures to liberalize the criminal law, there is a provision for the death penalty for the commission of only two crimes premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances and terrorism.

OSCE has reported abolition of the death penalty for 3 crimes in Kyrgyzstan in 2004 for 10 crimes in Tajikistan and for 6 crimes in Uzbekistan leaving the death penalty available for only 2 crimes.