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.
Latest news
NOVEMBER 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTY
Bangladesh: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTYBANGLADESH: 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 PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 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.
- MARCH 28, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JOURNO AFTAB MURDER
A Dhaka court sentenced five people to death in connection with the murder of photojournalist of Daily Ittefaq Aftab Ahmed.
- MARCH 22, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN COMILLA FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN
A Comilla district Court convicted three people and awarded death sentence to them for killing a businessman in 2013.
- MARCH 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF MUFTI HANNAN
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others in a case filed over the grenade attack on ex-British envoy to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.
- MARCH 15, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FREEDOM FIGHTER
- FEBRUARY 28, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh: 5 Islamist militants sentenced to death for killing Japanese researcher
28 February 2017: five members of a banned militant group were sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court Tuesday for involvement in the slaying of a Japanese agricultural researcher two years ago.
FEBRUARY 19, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES ONE TO DEATH OVER MANIKGANJ FARMER’S MURDER
A district court found one Nurul Islam guilty over the murder of farmer Aynal Hossain (48) in Kafatia village in Manikganj’s sadar upazila.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh proposes death penalty for flight disruptions
13 February 2017: the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's cabinet gave the go-ahead for the Civil Aviation Operation Act 2017 to be debated in Parliament.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 6 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING VAN-PULLER IN KUSHTIA
A Kushtia court handed over death sentence to 6 accused in a case filed over killing a van-puller named
JANUARY 30, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH, 12 GET LIFE OVER BARGUNA FISHERMEN MURDERS
A Barguna court awarded death sentence to two accused in a case filed over the murder of two fishermen by drowning in the district. The court also gave life imprisonment to 12 others.
- JANUARY 25, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING RANGPUR BUSINESSMAN
A Rangpur court sentenced four people to death and another one to three years’ imprisonment over the
JANUARY 24, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TWO IN CHUADANGA
A court in Chuadanga sentenced a man to death for killing a woman and her daughter in Railpara area of the district town in 2009.
- JANUARY 18, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THAKURGAON MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER
A man in Thakurgaon has been given a death sentence after he was found guilty of murdering his father.
- JANUARY 16, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 26 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NARAYANGANJ KILLINGS
twenty-six people, including a former city councillor extradited from India, were sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court for brutal murders of seven persons in Narayanganj in 2014.