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
- JANUARY 30, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
B'DESH COURT GIVES DEATH PENALTY TO 14 IN ARMS HAUL CASE
A Bangladeshi court today handed down death penalty to 14 people, including the Jamaat-e-Islami chief
- JANUARY 28, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a Barisal court has sentenced to death two brothers, Shahjahan Bairagi and Shahidul Islam Sahed Bairagi,
a Barisal court has sentenced to death two brothers, Shahjahan Bairagi and Shahidul Islam Sahed Bairagi,
JANUARY 23, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE IN CTG
A Chittagong court sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry.
- JANUARY 1, 2014BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
Article 32 of the Constitution provides
- DECEMBER 18, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh - Eight activists of the Awami League were awarded death penalty
Bangladesh - Eight activists of the Awami League were awarded death penalty
- DECEMBER 12, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Kader Mollah, 65, was hanged in the first execution for crimes
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Kader Mollah, 65, was hanged in the first execution for crimes
- NOVEMBER 25, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a pair of murderers who beat a man to death with an iron bar
a pair of murderers who beat a man to death with an iron bar
- NOVEMBER 24, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
the High Court in Bangladesh revised the death sentence
the High Court in Bangladesh revised the death sentence
- NOVEMBER 18, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh...
a speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh...
- NOVEMBER 18, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
the Dhaka High Court, in Bangladesh...
the Dhaka High Court, in Bangladesh...
NOVEMBER 6, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 1,102 ON DEATH ROW AFTER BDR SENTENCES
The number of convicts on death row in Bangladesh rose to 1,102 after a court on Tuesday
NOVEMBER 4, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 152 SOLDIERS HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR CRIMES IN MUTINY
A Bangladeshi court handed down death penalty to 152 former paramilitary soldiers after
NOVEMBER 3, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR WAR CRIMES
A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced to death two Bangladeshis now living abroad
- OCTOBER 3, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
In Bangladesh, the Nilphamari Women and Children Repression Control Court sentenced Babul
OCTOBER 1, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7TH OPPOSITION LAWMAKER SENTENCED TO DEATH
Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal sentenced a senior opposition leader and lawmaker to death in the seventh such verdict by the body set up to probe abuses during the country's bloody struggle for independence.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ABDUL KADER MULLAH GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR WAR CRIMES
Bangladesh's highest court has sentenced to death a leader of the main Islamist party convicted of crimes against humanity during the war for independence from Pakistan in 1971.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 TO HANG FOR MURDER
In Bangladesh, Madaripur District and Sessions Judge Bimal Chandra Sikdar said three convicts
JULY 17, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ISLAMIST LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Bangladesh court sentenced a senior leader of the country's largest Islamic party to death
JULY 15, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: GHULAM AZAM FOUND GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES
A 91-year-old top leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was sentenced to 90 years in jail
- JULY 9, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR TO DIE IN COLLEGE GIRL RAPE, MURDER CASE
In Bangladesh, a Lalmonirhat court sentenced four youths to death for killing a college
- JUNE 29, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG-RAPE
A court in the port city of Chittagong sentenced five men to death for rape after abducting an adolescent
JUNE 20, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH FOR 10 JMB ACTIVISTS
Ten Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) men were sentenced to death for involvement
JUNE 16, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW WITH DEATH SENTENCE FOR USING CHILDREN IN VIOLENCE
Bangladesh Parliament passed a law with provisions allowing the death penalty as the maximum punishment
- JUNE 12, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a Narayanganj court, in Bangladesh...
a Narayanganj court, in Bangladesh...
JUNE 5, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING HINDU LEADER
Five people were sentenced to death and three others handed down life term by a
MAY 19, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH PENALTY, 5 GET LIFE TERM
In Bangladesh, a Chittagong court sentenced four people to death for killing a lawyer’s
MAY 9, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: ISLAMIST SENTENCED TO HANG FOR WAR GENOCIDE
A Bangladeshi court sentenced a senior figure in the country's largest Islamic party to death
MAY 4, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OF THREE EX-ARMYMEN
The appellate division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court earlier this week upheld the death sentences
- APRIL 25, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a criminal court in Ras Al Khaimah...
a criminal court in Ras Al Khaimah...
APRIL 23, 2013BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING WIFE, CHILD
Mohammad Saleh Nur was hanged at Kashimpur jail in Gazipur, Bangladesh, on the first minute of today for murdering his wife and child.