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
- 1,311
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 1,311 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
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING MOTHER, SON IN RAJSHASHAI
A tribunal in Rajshahi gave death penalty to three people for killing a woman and her son in 2014, bangladeshpost.net reported on 18 September 2019.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: RAJSHAHI JAMAAT MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on 3 September 2019 sentenced a Jamaat-e-Islami man from Rajshahi to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
AUGUST 8, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 GET DEATH, 6 LIFE TERM IN MURDER CASE
A court in Kushtia on 31 July 2019 sentenced five people to death, six others to life imprisonment and six more people to different jail terms in the sensational Nurul Islam murder case.
JULY 4, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1994 ATTACK ON PM HASINA
A Bangladesh court on 3 July 2019 sentenced nine members of the main opposition party to death and handed life terms to another 25 for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 25 years ago, a government lawyer said.
- JUNE 27, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO TO WALK THE GALLOWS FOR GANG RAPE IN SHARIATPUR
A Shariatpur tribunal sentenced two men to death for gang-raping a girl at Mahmud Shikdar Kandi village in Zajira upazila in 2015.
JUNE 26, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 7 AWARDED LIFETIME IMPRISONMENT
A Kishoreganj court on 19 June 2019 awarded death sentence to three convict and lifetime imprisonment to seven in a murder case.
- MAY 23, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KAMRANGIRCHAR MURDER
Speedy Trial tribunal-1 on 23 May 2019 awarded death penalty to four people for killing one Monir Hossain and cutting the dead body into seven pieces in 2013.
MAY 3, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KHADEM MURDER CASE
A Dhaka court on 25 April 2019 sentenced six to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing administrative officer of Dhaka deputy commissioner's office Aminul Haque Khadem alias Anis Khadem in 2009, reports UNB.
APRIL 16, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RU TEACHER SHAFIUL
A Rajshahi court on 15 April 2019 sentenced three people to death for killing Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam in 2014, reports UNB.
APRIL 11, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 TO DIE IN NATORE BCL ACTIVIST KILLING
A court in Natore on 11 April 2019 sentenced four people to death and another to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of a BCL activist in Lalpur upazila.
APRIL 10, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE IN BARGUNA
A court in Barguna on 9 April 2019 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2010.
MARCH 29, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER WAR CRIMES IN NETROKONA
A court in Netrokona has sentenced to death five fugitives on charges of torture, abduction, murder and rape during the Liberation War in 1971 in Purbodhala.
MARCH 21, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 TO DIE FOR DOUBLE MURDER IN MYMENSINGH
A court in Mymensingh on 20 March 2019 sentenced four people to death for killing two siblings in Tarakanda upazila in 2001.
MARCH 20, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COURT ORDERS TO HANG 15 FOR MURDER IN 2008
Fifteen people on 20 March 2019 were sentenced to the gallows for killing a garments businessman in Dohar 10 years ago.
MARCH 14, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MYMENSINGH MURDER
A court in Mymensingh on 10 March 2019 sentenced three people to death for killing an auto-rickshaw driver in a bid to snatch away the vehicle in 2011, reports UNB.
MARCH 11, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: KHALAF MURDER CONVICT MAMUN HANGED
A condemned killer of Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on 3 March 2019 night.
FEBRUARY 22, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF A CHILD IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on 10 February 2019 sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old child in Chattogram’s Hathazari.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING NURSERY SCHOOL STUDENT EMON IN SYLHET
Four people have been sentenced to death for abducting and murdering a nursery school student in Sunamganj’s Chhatak Upazila.
JANUARY 31, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR MURDER
A Sirajganj court on 22 January 2019 sentenced four people to death for killing a woman over dowry in 2001.
JANUARY 10, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING COLLEGE TEACHER KRISHNA KABERI
A man was sentenced to death for killing a college teacher, Krishna Kaberi Biswas, in the capital’s Mohammadpur area in 2015, Star Online reported on 3 January 2019.
- JANUARY 1, 2019BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
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- NOVEMBER 28, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SCHOOLBOY
A Manikganj court on 27 November 2018 sentenced four people to death and three others to life term imprisonment for killing a schoolboy at Khashrchar village in Singair, Manikganj in 2014, reports UNB.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2007 MURDER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on 14 November 2018 sentenced five people to death for killing three traders 11 years ago.
NOVEMBER 6, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO MORE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR WAR CRIMES
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on 5 November 2018 sentenced two people to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
OCTOBER 30, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW WITH DEATH PENALTY FOR YABA OFFENCES
Parliament has passed the Narcotics Control Act 2018 with a provision for death penalty to the people convicted of yaba manufacture, distribution and trade, bdnews24 reported on 27 October 2018.
OCTOBER 26, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE TO DIE FOR KILLING SCHOOLBOY IN KUSHTIA
A Kushtia court on 25 October 2018 sentenced three people to death for killing a schoolboy after abduction in 2011.
- OCTOBER 25, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING MEHERPUR AUTO DRIVER
A court in Meherpur on 23 October 2018 sentenced three people to death and two others to three years’ imprisonment for killing the driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw in 2016.
OCTOBER 25, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR CARRYING YABA, HEROIN
The Narcotics Control Bill 2018 was placed in parliament last night, with provision for death sentence or life-term imprisonment for carrying, producing, trading and using more than five grammes of yaba, and more than 25 grammes of heroin and cocaine, The
- OCTOBER 11, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH TO HANG 19 FOR DEADLY ATTACK ON 2004 RALLY
OCTOBER 10, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COURT FINDS DEATH ROW CONVICT INNOCENT THE DAY HE DIES
Khulna jail received on 7 October 2018 the copy of a High Court order that one Obaid Ali be released from death row because the court had found him innocent.