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 16, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGHEST COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF TOP ISLAMIST
Bangladesh`s highest court upheld the death sentence against the country`s second highest ranked Islamist
JUNE 7, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE KIDNAPPERS TO WALK GALLOWS IN COX'S BAZAR
A court in Bangladesh sentenced three people to death for killing a schoolboy after abduction in 2013.
MAY 12, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR DOUBLE-MURDER
A Dhaka court awarded death penalty to two persons and life-term jail to one for killing an elderly couple in
- MAY 5, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court declared the mandatory death penalty provisions
the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court declared the mandatory death penalty provisions
MAY 4, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRADER
A Mymensingh court sentenced four men to death for killing chicken trader Abdur Razzak Fakir of Tarakanda, Madhupur.
APRIL 22, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ACID THROWING
A Rangpur court sentenced a youth to death for throwing acid on a schoolgirl.
APRIL 21, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BAGERHAT COURT ORDERS FIVE TO THE GALLOWS FOR MURDERING YOUTH
A Bagerhat court has sentenced five to death for the murder of a 25-year-old in Sadar Upazila six years ago.
APRIL 11, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SENIOR LEADER OF ISLAMIC PARTY HANGED
Bangladeshi authorities executed a top Islamic party official for crimes against humanity committed during the nation’s war of independence more than four decades ago, a senior police official said.
- APRIL 6, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN HANGED FOR DOUBLE MURDER
a murder convict was executed at the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur district.
- MARCH 30, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A Dhaka court sentenced to death seven people, including a listed criminal, and life term imprisonment to one for killing a Swechhchhasebak League leader in capital's Mirpur area in 2006.
- MARCH 23, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK THE GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE
A tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2008.
MARCH 1, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 1 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER
A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death in a case filed for raping and murdering his sister-in-law nine
FEBRUARY 25, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE
Five men were sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court for gang raping a teenaged girl in 2002, media
FEBRUARY 24, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK TO GALLOWS FOR TOFAZZAL MURDER
A court in Comilla awarded death penalty to three people and life term to five others for murder of Tofazzal
FEBRUARY 18, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH SENTENCE FOR SUBHAN OVER 1971 GENOCIDE, ARSON
A special war crimes tribunal sentenced one of the top leaders of an Islamic party to death for crimes during
- FEBRUARY 8, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING JU STUDENT ZUBAIR
A Dhaka court condemned five persons to death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing
- FEBRUARY 2, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
UAE: 2 BANGLADESHIS TO RELIEVE FROM DEATH SENTENCE IN DUBAI
- JANUARY 19, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR N'GANJ MURDER
A court in Narayanganj (Bangladesh) awarded a man death sentenced in absentia for killing a woman in
- JANUARY 5, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING CTG HEALTH WORKER
A Chittagong court awarded death sentence to three persons for raping a health worker in Banshkhali
- JANUARY 1, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
- NOVEMBER 13, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FUGITIVE ZAHID HOSSAIN SENTENCED TO DEATH
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) 1 sentenced fugitive MA Zahid Hossain to death on six charges of
- NOVEMBER 6, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE IN BOGRA
A tribunal in Bogra, Bangladesh, convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 1997 for
OCTOBER 29, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: NIZAMI TO BE HANGED FOR WAR CRIMES
Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was awarded death sentence for committing crimes against
- OCTOBER 27, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE TO WALK THE GALLOWS IN NATORE
In Bangladesh, a Natore court has sentenced one person to death for killing a class nine student in broad
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TOP ISLAMIST PREACHER'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
Bangladesh's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a top Islamist
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE, 5 TO LIFE TERM IN MURDER CASE
A Dhaka court awarded death sentence to one person and life term to five people for killing a student in
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE IN PATUAKHALI
In Bangladesh, a Patuakhali district court sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in Galachipa upazila
- JUNE 24, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NTV EMPLOYEE MURDER CASE
The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal 2 sentenced to death one Shakil Shikder for killing ntv video editor Atiqul
- JUNE 23, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 8 TO DIE FOR RAMNA KILLING
A Dhaka court has sentenced to death eight accused including Huji chief Mufti Hannan in the sensational
JUNE 16, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SEVEN PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
A district Court in Bangladesh awarded death penalty to seven people and jailed two others for life in over