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
- 1,301
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 1,301 news items on Bangladesh, from 1999 to today.
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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 PENALTY
BANGLADESH - 1 SENTENCE
FOR KILLING WIFE
JUNE 11, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH - 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 1, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
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- DECEMBER 12, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR TO DIE FOR KILLING AUTO-RICKSHAW DRIVER
Four people have been sentenced to death and two others received life term for the 2009 murder of auto-rickshaw driver Md Rana.
NOVEMBER 29, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SHAZNEEN KILLER SHAHID HANGED
Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the convicted killer of Scholastica student Shazneen Tasnim Rahman, was hanged at Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Dhaka.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HUSBAND, GIRLFRIEND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court awarded death penalty to a man and his girlfriend for killing his wife and slicing the body into pieces in 2012, reports UNB.
- NOVEMBER 27, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 139 SOLDIERS OVER MASSACRE
A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers over their role in a "brutal and barbaric" mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 1971 WAR CRIMES IN GAIBANDHA
A Dhaka court convicted six alleged war criminals, including former Gaibandha lawmaker Abu Saleh Muhammad AbdulAziz Miah alias Ghoramara Aziz, and sentenced them to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS, 2 GET LIFE TERM FOR MURDER
A court in Gazipur sentenced a man to death and two others to life term imprisonment for killing a girl in 2015.