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
- 1,317
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 1,317 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
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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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.
- JANUARY 1, 2018BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
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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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO HANGED IN JESSORE FOR MURDERING FREEDOM FIGHTER IN 1994
The authorities in Jessore Central Jail have executed death sentences of two for murdering freedom fighter Monwar Hossain 23 years ago.
NOVEMBER 15, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HUSBAND RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE
A Dhaka court sentenced a man to death in a case filed on charges of killing his wife over a family dispute in 2016.
OCTOBER 25, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 9 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING COLLEGE STUDENT
A court in Gazipur sentenced nine people to death for killing a college student in 2010.
- OCTOBER 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WIFE’S MURDER IN CHITTAGONG
A Chittagong court has sentenced a man to death for the murder of his wife.
- OCTOBER 3, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: WOMAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING STEPDAUGHTER
A Dhaka court sentenced a woman to death for killing her six-year-old stepdaughter in the capital’s Jatrabari area in 2014.
AUGUST 21, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBangladesh: 10 sentenced to death in PM Sheikh Hasina's assasination attempt
21 August 2017: Dhaka court has ordered execution of 10 people accussed in the assassination attempt of the current Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina.
- JULY 24, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 2 JMB MEN'S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED TO LIFE TERM
The High Court commuted the death sentence of two activists of the banned Islamist outfit JMB to life imprisonment in a case filed for their involvement in the 2005 series bomb blasts in Shariatpur.
- JULY 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING GAZIPUR TRADER
A Gazipur court sentenced five people to death for killing a trader in Kaliganj upazila of the district in 2008, reports UNB.
- JUNE 5, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES OISHEE’S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
The High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Oishee Rahman to life term imprisonment for killing her parents in 2013.
- JUNE 4, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SISTER
A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for killing a woman in 2015.
- MAY 30, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE
A Jessore court sentenced a man to death in a case for killing a minor girl after rape in 2014.
- MAY 17, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 23 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING FOUR AL MEN
Twenty three people including a BNP leader have been awarded death penalty for killing four activists of Awami League and its student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League of Araihazar of Narayanganj in 2002.
MAY 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE
A court in Lakshmipur sentenced a man to death for killing his wife five years back, reports BSS.
- APRIL 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Two Razakars from Kishoreganj were sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
19 April 2017: Syed Mohammad Hussain alias Hossain, 64, and Muhammad Moslem Pradhan, 66 have been condemned to death for war crimes.
APRIL 13, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MUFTI HANNAN, 2 OTHERS HANGED
The government hanged radical Islamist leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan, for his role in kick-starting militancy on Bangladesh’s soil.
- APRIL 6, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE TO DIE, ONE TO SPEND LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING STUDENT IN GAZIPUR
A court in Gazipur awarded death sentences to three men and life in prison to a woman for abducting and murdering a university student.
APRIL 2, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE IN BLOGGER RAJIB MURDER CASE
The High Court in Bangladesh upheld the trial court verdict that sentenced two people to death over the murder of blogger and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.