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
APRIL 5, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF CHILD
One man, Rakib Sonar, 25, was sentenced to death and another was sentenced to
- MARCH 29, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
three persons were awarded death sentences and six others...
three persons were awarded death sentences and six others lifetime imprisonment for killing local Awami League leaders Golam Azam and Shahjahan Ali.
- MARCH 29, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH - Bangladeshi national sentenced to death by Malaysia's High Court
MARCH 24, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SAGAR TO HANG FOR KILLING SHUBHO
In Bangladesh, a speedy trial tribunal sentenced to death Tajul Islam Sagar for
- MARCH 13, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a Dhaka court, in Bangladesh, awarded death sentence...
a Dhaka court, in Bangladesh, awarded death sentence...
- FEBRUARY 16, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: EIGHT TO HANG FOR KILLING FARMERS
In Bangladesh, a court handed down death sentences to eight people over the much-discussed murder of three farmers at Mymensingh's Dhobaura in 2006.
FEBRUARY 16, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISM
In Bangladesh, the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed in the Jatiya Sangsad
JANUARY 27, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: PARDON FOR DEATH ROW INMATES
The family of ‘Mohidul’, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Kuwait who was murdered by three
- JANUARY 1, 2012BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh applies the death penalty for such crimes as murder, sedition and drug-trafficking.
Bangladesh applies the death penalty for such crimes as murder, sedition and drug-trafficking.
- DECEMBER 27, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING FELLOW STUDENT
Judge Motahar Hossain of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced college students Nasir Uddin Anik, Akhter Hossain and Mohammad Shaheed to death for murdering Amzad Hossain between Rampura and Demra on June 14, 2009.
- DECEMBER 26, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: CABINET OKAYS DRAFT OF AMENDED ANTI-TERROR LAW
the Bangladeshi cabinet approved the final draft of the Anti-terrorism (amendment) Act, 2011 with a provision for the death penalty for getting involved in, supporting or financing militancy and terrorist activities in the country.
- DECEMBER 22, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR TO DIE FOR KILLING IMAM
a speedy trial tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced Abdur Rahim Sarder, 43, Mohamad Qazi Baizid, 42, Murad Hossain, 45, and Ikram alias Masud, 45, to death for murdering Ramna Police Station mosque imam Maulana Mohammad Ishaq on December 29, 2010. Masud was s
- DECEMBER 12, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
the Bangladeshi cabinet approved a draft law to curtail human trafficking with capital punishment.
- DECEMBER 12, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TANGALLE
five members of a family were sentenced to death by Tangalle High Court judge Chandrasena Rajapaksa in Bangladesh.
- DECEMBER 5, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden
- NOVEMBER 15, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KHULNA
in Khulna, Bangladesh, Additional District and Session Court- 3 Judge Abdul Mannan sentenced brothers Daud and Shamsher Molla, from Baduria village under Dumuria thana of the district, to death for murdering their cousin Abdur Razzak Molla on August 22, 2
- OCTOBER 25, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ACQUITTAL OF 8 DEATH SENTENCES STAYED
Bangladesh's Supreme Court Appellate Division Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain stayed a High Court verdict that acquitted eight people condemned to death for killing Mohammad Alam for six weeks.
- OCTOBER 19, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: DEATH PENALTY IN REFRIGERATOR TRUCK MURDER
MS, 23, a driver from Bangladesh, was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for locking an acquaintance in a refrigerated truck, then killing him over a financial disagreement in February 2011.
- OCTOBER 11, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MAID AND BOYFRIEND GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING EMPLOYER
Ahmed Saeed Al Naqabi of the Khorfakkan Criminal Court of First Instance in the United Arab Emirates sentenced an unidentified housemaid and her boyfriend, both from Bangladesh, to death for murdering the maid's Emirati employer Layla Al Gawi, 42, at her
- OCTOBER 9, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: 5 MORE BANGLADESHIS ON SAUDI DEATH ROW
“a Sharia court sentenced five Bangladeshis in Riyadh to death in three cases for murdering three compatriots,” Haroon-or-Rashid, Bangladesh's labour counsellor in Saudi Arabia, said.
- OCTOBER 7, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed eight Bangladeshi nationals for their part in an armed robbery in
Saudi Arabia executed eight Bangladeshi nationals for their part in an armed robbery in
- OCTOBER 5, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 19 PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW IN KHULNA
the Khulna district jail in Bangladesh has 19 prisoners on death row for murder in five condemned cells.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a court convicted a young man handing him down death penalty for killing a man eight months before.
a court convicted a young man handing him down death penalty for killing a man eight months before.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 6 TO DIE FOR KILLING AL LEADER
in Bangladesh, Dhaka's Speedy Trial Tribunal -4 judge Motahar Hossain sentenced six
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN HANGED FOR KILLING WOMAN, SON
ABM Nazmul Sakib, alias Ashik, 32, a private tutor, was executed in Jessore Central Jail
SEPTEMBER 4, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY EXECUTED IN RAJSHAHI JAIL
Nistar Ali was executed in Rajshahi Central Jail in Bangladesh for killing his wife Merina Begum, 22, in Beldanga village under Shapaher Upazila in Naogaon district on September 14, 1999.
- AUGUST 7, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD
the Bangladeshi Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of Ilias Hossain
- JULY 26, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC ACQUITS 3, COMMUTES 7 DEATH SENTENCES
justices Mohammad Fazlur Raham and Bhabani Prasad Singha of the Bangladeshi High Court acquitted three for murdering ward commissioner Saidur Rahman Newton in Dhanmondi area on May 10, 2002.
- JULY 19, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: EX-COP, TWO OTHERS GET DEATH SENTENCE
in Bangladesh, Judge Md Rezaul Islam of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced ex Motijheel policeman A K M Rafiqul Islam...
JULY 19, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN HANGED FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
a prisoner was hanged at Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur district north of Dhaka city, Bangladesh.