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.
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JUNE 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OF PRADEEP, LIAKAT
The High Court (HC) on June 2, 2025 upheld the death sentences of former OC Pradeep Kumar Das and former inspector Liakat Ali in the widely discussed murder case of Major (Retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
MAY 29, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS ISLAMIST LEADER ON DEATH ROW
Bangladesh's top court on May 27, 2025 overturned a conviction against a key leader of the country's main Islamist party, who had been on death row since being sentenced under the regime ousted last year.
MAY 27, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH 17 YEARS AFTER COLLEGE STUDENT MURDER
A court in Bangladesh on May 20, 2025 handed down the death penalty to three individuals over the murder of a college student in Bhairab Upazila of Kishoreganj, 17 years after the killing took place.
MAY 26, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRADER AFTER ABDUCTION IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on March 20, 2025 sentenced six men to death for abducting and murdering vegetable trader Nazmul Islam in 2017.
- MAY 14, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 5 LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE IN MUNSHIGANJ
A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka on May 8, 2025 awarded death penalty to three accused and life term imprisonment to five others in a triple murder case in Munshiganj.
MAY 8, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SENIOR LAWYER IN SYLHET
A Sylhet court on May 6, 2025 sentenced three individuals, including the son of the victim, to death for the brutal 2011 murder of veteran lawyer Shamsul Islam Chowdhury. Another accused in the case received a three-year prison sentence.
MAY 6, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR MURDER OF HAWKER ZUBAIR IN NARAYANGANJ
A Narayanganj court on May 6, 2025 sentenced four individuals to death and two others to life imprisonment in the murder case of hawker Zubair.
- APRIL 22, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DAUGHTER IN CHUADANGA
A court has handed down the death penalty to a man for raping his daughter in Chuadanga.
APRIL 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING LABORER IN HABIGANJ
A Habiganj court on April 9, 2025 sentenced four people to death for the murder of a day laborer at Madhabpur upazila in the district.
- MARCH 25, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE, MURDER OF TEENAGER IN 2022
A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced three individuals to death in connection with the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl in Keraniganj, Dhaka, three years ago.
- MARCH 18, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 20 MEN WHO MURDERED STUDENT OVER FACEBOOK POST
A High Court in Bangladesh on March 16, 2025 upheld the death sentence of 20 men convicted of killing a fellow student seven years ago inside a university campus.
- MARCH 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES IN TANGAIL BUS RAPE AND MURDER CASE
The High Court on January 27, 2025 commuted the death sentences of three convicts in the 2017 rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa in a moving bus near Modhupur upazila in Tangail.
- MARCH 10, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND
Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 on February 27, 2025 sentenced Maruf Hasan Badhon to death for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, Asma Akter, five years ago.
FEBRUARY 26, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: CONTRACTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER BKASH AGENT'S MURDER IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on February 24, 2025 handed down the death penalty to a contractor over the murder of a bKash agent in 2020.
- FEBRUARY 25, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN IN HABIGANJ
A Habiganj court on February 24, 2025 convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a woman in 2014.
FEBRUARY 11, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 BNP LEADERS RELEASED FROM RAJSHAHI JAIL
Four Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders, who were acquitted from the death penalty by the High Court recently, were released from Rajshahi jail on February 11, 2025.
- FEBRUARY 4, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHATTOGRAM FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE OVER DOWRY
A Chattogram court on February 3, 2025 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife, who was pregnant at the time, over conflict centring dowry.
- JANUARY 22, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE TO BE HANGED FOR 2013 MURDER IN SAVAR
A court in Dhaka sentenced three people to death on January 16, 2025 for the murder of a man in Savar about 12 years ago over previous enmity.
- DECEMBER 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT COMMUTES ULFA LEADER'S DEATH SENTENCE
A Bangladeshi High Court on December 18, 2024 commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Barua to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN PANCHAGARH
A Panchagarh court on November 26, 2024 sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of his wife at Atwari upazila in the district.
NOVEMBER 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN, HIS TWO SONS AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING BUSINESSMAN IN SYLHET
A court in Sylhet sentenced a father and his two sons to death on November 25, 2024 for the murder of a businessman in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet district.
- NOVEMBER 20, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MIRPUR BANGLA COLLEGE MURDER CASE
A Dhaka special court on November 19, 2024 sentenced three people to death in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Mirpur Bangla College student Nurul Amin in 2022.
- NOVEMBER 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING TEEN IN KISHOREGANJ
A Kishoreganj court on November 6, 2024 sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment for the murder of a teenager over a mobile phone at Pakundia upazila in 2008.
NOVEMBER 4, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER, DAUGHTER IN HABIGANJ IN 2021
A Habiganj court on October 29, 2024 sentenced three people to death in a case filed for killing a woman and her daughter in 2021.
- OCTOBER 29, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN KHULNA
A Bangladeshi court has handed down the death penalty to five men over the 2016 murder of Jahid Hossain in Khulna.
OCTOBER 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN LALMONIRHAT MURDER CASE
A court in Lalmonirhat on October 28, 2024 sentenced two persons to death in the much-discussed murder case filed in 2020 at Hatibandha Upazila in the district.
JULY 11, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: SIX TO BE HANGED IN MURDER CASE IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court has sentenced six people to death and 10 others to life term imprisonment for killing a man named Nurul Haque over land dispute in Brahmanpara upazila of the district in 2011.
JULY 9, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH, 10 LIFE SENTENCES FOR 2012 MURDER OF BRAHMANBARIA AL LEADER IQBAL AZAD
A tribunal has sentenced four people to death and 10 to life in prison for the 2012 murder of Sarail Upazila Awami League leader Iqbal Azad in Brahmanbaria.
JUNE 18, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER IN NARAIL
A court in Narail on June 12, 2024 sentenced three people to death for killing a man in Lohagara upazila of the district in 2018.
- JUNE 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: YOUTH GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD IN CTG
A Chattogram court on June 9, 2024 sentenced a youth to death for killing a five-year-old child at Mirsari upazila in the district in 2010.