Bangladesh
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · While in 1997 capital offenses were extended to include...
- News items in the archive
- 1,312
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Bangladesh is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 1,312 news items on Bangladesh, from 1999 to today.
In Bangladesh capital punishment applies to a wide list of offences and is imposed both by the ordinary courts and by special tribunals, including the one for the crimes of the war of independence. The method is hanging.
Sentences are numerous and include trials with many defendants. The archive gathers sentences, executions and appeals.
Latest news
OCTOBER 6, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: three sentenced to death for killing garment worker after mugging
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: man sentenced to death for killing wife in Kishoreganj
SEPTEMBER 21, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: 3 sentenced to death for Tangail UP chairman murder
SEPTEMBER 18, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: two years on, fugitive death-row convict arrested in Chattogram
SEPTEMBER 15, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: seven Hasina-era leaders sentenced to death
SEPTEMBER 13, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: Two sentenced to death for rape, murder of teenage girl
AUGUST 31, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: HC confirms death sentence of lone accused for rape, murder of 8-year-old Asiya
AUGUST 6, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 4-YR-OLD GIRL IN SYLHET
JULY 29, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN IN DHAKA’S BADDA
JULY 21, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE 9 YEARS AFTER KILLING WIFE
JULY 17, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYCHINESE EMBASSY IN BANGLADESH WARNS CITIZENS BUYING BRIDES RISK DEATH PENALTY
JULY 2, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HUSBAND, DISMEMBERING BODY
APRIL 9, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO EX-COPS TO BE HANGED IN ABU SAYED KILLING CASE
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on April 9, 2026 sentenced two former policemen to death and others to varying jail terms in a crimes against humanity case filed over the killing of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) student Abu Sayed.
- APRIL 8, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
SHEIKH HASINA ASKS BANGLADESH TRIBUNAL TO SET ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE, SEEKS FAIR TRIAL
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has demanded in a legal communication to Bangladeshi authorities that the death sentence given to her by a tribunal last year be set aside as “legally void”, and that any further proceedings against her be conducted in
APRIL 1, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CARETAKER OVER TK5 DEMAND
A Dhaka court on March 31, 2026 sentenced a man to death for killing a caretaker after asking him for Tk5 in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.
MARCH 31, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A Jamalpur court on March 30, 2026 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in Dewanganj upazila, in a case linked to alleged dowry-related abuse.
- MARCH 2, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S MURDER IN BHATARA
A Dhaka court on February 25, 2026 sentenced Jibon Hossain Mukul to death for the murder of his wife, Fahima Begum, in the capital’s Bhatara area 13 years ago.
FEBRUARY 25, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 TO DIE FOR COLLEGE STUDENT MURDER IN CAPITAL
A Dhaka court on February 22, 2026 sentenced two men to death for the planned murder of Tejgaon College student Ikram Hossain Mollah, 22, in the capital’s Khilkhet area.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: EX-MP AMONG SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ASHULIA CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY CASE
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on February 5, 2025 sentenced six people, including former Dhaka-19 lawmaker Md Saiful Islam, to death
- FEBRUARY 1, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NASHIT MURDER CASE
Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Feni on January 29, 2026 sentenced three persons to death for murder of 10-year-old boy Ahnaf Al Main alias Nashit and hiding his body.
JANUARY 28, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 TO DIE FOR MURDER OF GOPALGANJ TRANSPORT UNION LEADER BASU
A Dhaka court on January 28, 2026 sentenced five people to death for the 2016 murder of Saidur Rahman Basu, a former president of the Gopalganj Motor Workers Union.
JANUARY 26, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: EX-DMP CHIEF, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER CHANKHARPUL KILLINGS
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on January 26, 2026 sentenced former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman and two others to death for crimes against humanity over the killing of six people
DECEMBER 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court on December 1st, 2025 sentenced a man to death for murdering his wife in the Dakshin Keraniganj area of the capital after she failed to fulfil his dowry demand.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: OUSTED PM HASINA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STUDENTS CRACKDOWN
A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on November 17, 2025, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.
NOVEMBER 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING COP OVER 'EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR' IN MYMENSINGH
A Mymensingh court on November 6, 2024 sentenced a policeman and his wife to death for killing another policeman over "extramarital affairs" in 2014.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE PERPETRATORS
Bangladesh's interim government on November 6, 2025 approved a draft ordinance prescribing the death penalty for perpetrators of “enforced disappearance”
NOVEMBER 2, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 YOUTHS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE IN KHULNA
A Khulna court on October 28, 2025 sentenced seven youths to death for killing Parvez Hawlader and Suprana Saha in the city's Daulatpur Paabla area on January 3, 2009.
- OCTOBER 29, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BARISHAL GANG RAPE CASE
A Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on 26 October 2025 sentenced four individuals to death for their involvement in a gang rape case.
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING FATHER IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on September 14, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his father in 2020 over a family feud.
- AUGUST 28, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING CHILD
A Cox's Bazar court on August 26, 2025 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Moheshkhali upazila in 2022.