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
OCTOBER 9, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENSES APPROVED
The production, smuggling, sale, and use of methamphetamines will be punishable by death in Bangladesh, which has followed the Philippines’ Duterte and launched a brutal war on drugs that has seen more than 200 killed since May.
OCTOBER 8, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR KHALAF MURDER CONVICT
The Supreme Court on 7 October 2018 upheld the death penalty for Saiful Islam rejecting his review plea in Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al-Ali murder case.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DOUBLE MURDER
A court on September 19, 2018 sentenced five people to death for their involvement in killing a father and his son near Barishur Bazar area in Keraniganj, Dhaka in 1993, reports UNB.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HOUSEWIFE MURDER
Three people were sentenced to death on September 12, 2018 for killing a housewife at Bhanuka village in Shariatpur Sadar upazila in 2014, reports UNB.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN
A Gazipur court has sentenced seven people to death for the 2011 murder of businessman Milon Bhuiyan
AUGUST 7, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF 3 IN SAMI MURDER CASE
The High Court upheld the death sentence of three convicts over the killing of minor boy Salman Sami in Dhaka in 2011.
AUGUST 5, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 2 GIRLS
A court sentenced a woman to death for killing two girls in 2017 in Chapainawabganj.
JULY 18, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR 4 WAR CRIMINALS
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 found four Moulvibazar men guilty of committing genocide during the Liberation War and handed down death penalty on all of them.
JUNE 12, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH - 1 SENTENCE
FOR KILLING WIFE
- JUNE 11, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH - 4 DEATH SENTENCES
FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF GIRL
- JUNE 11, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH - 2 GO TO GALLOWS
FOR HEROIN
- MAY 28, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE
A tribunal in Narayanganj awarded capital punishment to three people for killing a garment worker after rape.
MAY 20, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 TO DIE, 7 GET LIFE IN PRISON FOR KILLING KERANIGANJ BUSINESSMAN
A court awarded death penalty to three people and life imprisonment to seven others for killing a businessman for extortion in Keraniganj in 2006.
MAY 14, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF MADARIPUR TRADER
A Madaripur court has sentenced four people to death for the murder of trader Sohel Mollik.
- MAY 8, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO ISLAMISTS ORDERED HANGED FOR MACHETE MURDER OF PROFESSOR
Two Islamists were sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a Bangladesh university professor who was hacked to death with a machete two years ago, a prosecutor said.
MAY 8, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MICROBUS DRIVER
A Netrakona court sentenced four people to death for killing a microbus driver in 2013, reports UNB.
MAY 7, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH FOR KILLING A-LEVEL STUDENT IN DHAKA
The High Court handed down death penalty to two people and life-term jail to two others for the killing of Ashikur Rahman Khan Apu, an A-level student, in Dhaka’s Wari area in 2008.
APRIL 23, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 13 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING IN GAZIPUR
A Gazipur court sentenced 13 people to death for killing a man named Billal alias Bilu in Kaliganj upazila of the district.
- APRIL 18, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 2 TO WALK GALLOWS IN NATORE FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE
A court in Natore sentenced two young men to death for killing a schoolgirl after rape in Naldanga upazila in 2015.
- APRIL 10, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FIVE TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING EXPAT
A Chittagong court sentenced five persons to death in a case filed for killing a Bangladesh-born American citizen in 2011.
- APRIL 4, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR 2011 RAPE, MURDER OF TEENAGED GIRL IN CHITTAGONG
A Chittagong court has sentenced three men to death for raping and murdering a teen seven years ago.
- MARCH 18, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SEVEN MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SUFI SHRINE CARETAKER
Seven militants, including neo-JMB terror group's regional chief, were sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing a Sufi shrine caretaker in 2015, according to a media report.
- MARCH 13, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 39 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FULGAZI UZ CHAIRMAN
A Feni court sentenced 39 people to death in the sensational Fulgazi upazila parishad chairman Ekramul Haque killing case, reports UNB.
MARCH 13, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WAR CRIMES IN NOAKHALI
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has sentenced three war criminals, including Razakar Amir Ahmed, alias Amir Ali, to death in a case filed over crimes against humanity in 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.
MARCH 7, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ALLEGED SERIAL KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TORTURING, MURDERING WOMAN
An alleged serial killer sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court on March 7 for torturing and murdering a woman may have claimed at least seven other victims, authorities said.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: GAZIPUR COURT SENTENCES FOUR TO DEATH OVER MURDER OF AUTORICKSHAW OWNER
A Gazipur court has sentenced four people to death in a 2012 case over the murder of an autorickshaw owner in the district.
JANUARY 31, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 11 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HABIGANJ FARMER MURDER
A Habiganj court sentenced 11 people to death for killing a farmer at Baghjur village in Baniachang upazila of the district in 2001, reports UNB.
JANUARY 24, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER HABIGANJ FARMER MURDER
A Habiganj court sentenced seven people, including a woman, to death in connection with the killing of a farmer in Nabiganj upazila on 22 June 2008, reports UNB.
JANUARY 14, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 9 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING NARAIL AL MAN
A special tribunal in Khulna sentenced nine people including a Union Parishad chairman to death for killing Awami League activist Probhas Roy in Narail last year.
JANUARY 9, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 MOULVIBAZAR WAR CRIMINALS GET DEATH PENALTY
A special tribunal in Dhaka sentenced death penalty to two people from Moulvibazar and life-term jail to three others for committing crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.