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
- MAY 19, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN CTG
in Bangladesh, Additional Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge La Mong sentenced Salauddin...
- MAY 17, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: DEATH FOR WATCHMAN FOR KILLING OWNER
in the United Arab Emirates, the Federal Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of a Bangladeshi watchman for killing his employer and landlord in 2005.
- APRIL 27, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 2 MEN TO WALK TO GALLOWS FOR DOWRY
in Kushtia, Bangladesh, a Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge sentenced two men to death in absentia for killing their wives for dowry in separate verdicts.
- APRIL 7, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HUSBAND TO WALK TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE IN KUSHTIA
in Kushtia, Bangladesh, women and children repression prevention tribunal judge Akbar Hossain Mridha sentenced Manik Mollah...
- MARCH 30, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 TO WALK TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING A BUSINESSMAN IN SYLHET
in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Additional District and Sessions Judge M Najir Ahmed sentenced Abdul Mannan...
- MARCH 22, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC DECLARES TAHER TRIAL ILLEGAL
justices Chowdhury and Hossain of the Bangladeshi High Court found that the July 21, 1976, execution of Col Abu Taher was illegal.
- MARCH 21, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING JUBO LEAGUE LEADER
in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Judge Md Rezaul Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 sentenced Pallab Bepari...
- MARCH 11, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE TO DIE FOR KILLING SCHOOLBOY
in Bangladesh, three people were sentenced to death kidnapping and killing schoolboy Tanjirul Islam Mishelin from Dania under Shyampur police station on July 5, 2003, for ransom
- MARCH 2, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN EXECUTED IN SYLHET JAIL
Robi Munda, 60, from Habiganj, was executed in Sylhet Central Jail in Bangladesh
- JANUARY 27, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE IN GOPALGANJ
in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, Tuhin Kazi of Manikhar village was sentenced to death by Judge Golam Morshed of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal for killing his wife Mina Sultana for dowry on August 10, 2007.
JANUARY 24, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE TO GO TO GALLOWS IN JL LEADER MURDER CASE
Sirajganj, Bangladesh, District and session judge Salma Bhanu sentenced BNP
- JANUARY 17, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN SATKHIRA
in Satkhira, Pakistan, Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge SM Rezanur Rahman sentenced Ruhul Amin, 30, of Telkara village in Kolaroa upazila, to death for killing his wife Zannatul Ferdous, 23, on May 9, 2007, after torturing her for d
- JANUARY 1, 2011BangladeshDEATH 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 29, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE
in Bangladesh, Judge Kaniz Akhter Nasrina Khatun of Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 sentenced Manik Mia, a resident of Tangail district, to death for killing his sister-in-law after raping her in Mirzapur of Tangail on June 13, 1997.
- DECEMBER 22, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI BEHEADS BANGLADESHI CONVICTED OF MURDER
Saudi Arabia beheaded Bangladeshi national Kirun Abdelghani in Jeddah
- NOVEMBER 24, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: COURT HANDS DOWN DEATH PENALTY TO 18 PEOPLE
in Bangladesh, Additional district and sessions judge Abdur Rahim Mridha sentenced
- NOVEMBER 23, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR MURDER IN C’NAWABGANJ
in Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh, Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge Arup Kumar Goswami sentenced Akhtarul Islam Tanu, of Macchmari village of Shibganj municipality area, death for killing Tokiara Khatun on February 16, 1998.
- OCTOBER 31, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING SCHOOL BOY
in Narsingdi, Bangladesh, Additional District and Sessions Judge AKM Abul Kashem sentenced Mohammad Faruk Mia, 25, of Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj, to death and fined him Tk 50,000.
- OCTOBER 21, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN BAGERHAT
in Bagerhat, Bangladesh, Additional District and Sessions court-1 Judge M Rezaul Karim sentenced Mamun Hawlader of Nalbunia village in Sharankhola upazila to death.
- OCTOBER 19, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 1 TO DIE FOR KILLING SHAHJALAL INT`L AIRPORT EMPLOYEE
at a speedy trial tribunal court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Judge Mohammad Rezaul Karim sentenced businessman and Uttara resident Mohammad Humayun Kabir, 32, to death for killing Assaduzzaman Sanju, 30, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on March 6, 200
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: BILL ON MUTINY DEATH SENTENCE PLACED
a bill that proposes empowering the Bangladeshi government to hand down death sentences for staging mutiny was placed before parliament to be passed into law.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 MEN EXECUTED IN 3 JAILS
in Bangladesh, four men convicted of murder were executed in different cities at or around
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: PRESIDENT PARDONS TWENTY DEATH ROW CONVICTS
Bangladesh has granted clemency to 20 death row inmates under a presidential
- AUGUST 18, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER IN SYLHET
in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Additional District and Sessions Judge Nazir Ahmed sentenced Azam Ali...
- AUGUST 12, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN FARIDPUR
in Faridpur, Bangladesh, tribunal judge Khan Md. Abdul Mannan...
- AUGUST 4, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING HIS WIFE IN NETRAKONA
in Netrakona, Bangladesh, Judge Ekramul Haque Chowdhury of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 sentenced Abul Kalam, of Digjan village in Sadar upazila, to death and fined him Tk 50,000.
- JULY 26, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN
in Natore, Bangladesh, additional district and session judge Dilip Kumar Devnath sentenced Sailash Kumar Kalu, of Natore, to death in absentia for killing his business partner Humayun Rabbani Talukder Swadhin on September 23, 2001, in Tebaria
- JULY 25, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY
in the United Arab Emirates, Bangladeshi man M.K., 26, unsuccessfully appealed his death sentence for murdering Indian man B.K. in 2005. M.K. was originally sentenced to death by the Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance for fatally stabbing B.K. after a
JULY 12, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: CABINET OKAYS BORDER GUARD BANGLADESH ACT
the Bangladeshi cabinet approved the draft of the Border Guard Bangladesh Act
- JULY 8, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR MURDER IN NOAKHALI
in Noakhali, Bangladesh, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sakam Anisur Rahman sentenced Abdul Wad Mithu to death for killing a minor boy.