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
JUNE 6, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT CONFIRMS DEATH FOR JAMAAT MEDIA BARON
Bangladesh's Supreme Court released its judgement confirming capital punishment for a top Islamist leader
JUNE 6, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HUSBAND
A court in Bangladesh awarded death sentence to a woman for killing her husband.
JUNE 1, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH, TWO TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR WAR CRIMES
A special tribunal sentenced a person to death while two others to life in prison for crimes committed during
MAY 31, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 6 MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER BANK ROBBERY
Six militants of banned outfits Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Ansarullah Bangla Team have
- MAY 21, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING
A Gazipur court sentenced four to death for murdering a businessman in 2006. The verdict was handed
MAY 10, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MATIUR RAHMAN NIZAMI HANGED
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami was hanged inside the Dhaka Central Jail after he was found guilty of genocide by International Crimes Tribunal.
- MAY 5, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI HEAD
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of top Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami
- MAY 4, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MAKING FAKE NOTES
Additional district and session judge court in Nilphamari sentenced one person to death for making fake
MARCH 31, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SIBLINGS TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING BCL MAN IN BOGRA
A Bogra court sentenced three brothers to death and three people, including two siblings, to life
MARCH 23, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 12 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NOAKHALI DOUBLE MURDER
A court in Bangladesh convicted 12 people and sentenced them to death for killing two people in 2007.
- MARCH 21, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING STREET BOY
A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death for brutally killing a street boy 13 years ago.
MARCH 9, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 13 TO BE HANGED FOR MURDERS IN 4 DISTS
Thirteen people were sentenced to death in separate murder cases in Chittagong, Rangpur, Gazipur and
- MARCH 8, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR JAMAAT LEADER FOR 1971 WAR CRIMES
Bangladesh Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for one of the top leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami
FEBRUARY 29, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: PARLIAMENT PASSES COAST GUARD BILL WITH DEATH SENTENCE FOR MUTINY
Parliament passed a bill that allows death sentence for coast guards for mutiny in the force.
FEBRUARY 24, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO KILLERS OF RU PROFESSOR MOHAMMAD YUNUS GET DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO LIFE TERM FOLLOWING RETRIAL
The death sentence handed down to two militants of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
FEBRUARY 16, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS
A Chittagong court convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his two younger brothers in 2013
FEBRUARY 11, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD OVER 2004 ATTACK ON BRITISH ENVOY
A Bangladesh court upheld death sentences for three members of an outlawed Islamist militant group in
- FEBRUARY 2, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 2 MORE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 1971 WAR CRIMES
A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced two more men to death after finding them guilty of
JANUARY 7, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE KILLERS OF JASAD LEADER KAZI AREF HANGED
Three condemned killers of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal founding president Kazi Aref Ahmed and four other
- JANUARY 6, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR TOP ISLAMIST LEADER
Bangladesh's top court upheld the death sentence on the leader of the largest Islamist party for crimes during
- JANUARY 1, 2016BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
- NOVEMBER 30, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 11 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING JUBO LEAGUE LEADER
A Gazipur court has sentenced 11 persons to death for killing Jubo League leader Jalal Uddin Sarkar in 2004.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: COURTS IN SIX DISTRICTS SENTENCE 29 TO DEATH IN SEVEN SEPARATE MURDER CASES
Altogether twenty-nine people were sentenced to death in seven separate murder cases in six districts in Bangladesh.
NOVEMBER 21, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 OPPOSITION LEADERS EXECUTED DESPITE CONCERNS
Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders on charges of war crimes during the country's 1971 independence war, a senior jail official said, despite concerns that the legal proceedings against them were flawed and threats of violence by their
- NOVEMBER 8, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRUTAL CHILD MURDERS
A Bangladesh court handed four men the death sentence over the brutal killing of a 13-year-old boy that
- NOVEMBER 4, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE TO WALK GALLOWS FOR MURDER IN CTG
A tribunal in Chittagong sentenced a youth to death for killing a businessman in 2013, reports UNB.
- OCTOBER 25, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE
A court in Bangladesh sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2014.
OCTOBER 19, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN
A Bogra court handed down death penalty to one Belal Hossain Bilu for hacking a businessman to death.
- AUGUST 3, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF CHILD RAPIST
In a rare instance, the Supreme Court commuted a “teenage boy's” death sentence to jail until death for
JULY 16, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SPECIAL COURT ORDERS NEW WAR CRIMES DEATH SENTENCE
A Bangladeshi special court handed down the latest in a line of death sentences to a former political