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
- OCTOBER 8, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCED HUSBAND TO DEATH
the Special Court of Woman and Children Repression Prevention in Nilphamari, Bangladesh, sentenced Montu Rahman, from Putimari village in Kishorganj upazila, to death. On April 18, 2007, during an argument Montu and a friend suffocated his wife, Jahanara
- OCTOBER 5, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
in Bangladesh, the trial for the 1975 assassination of the country’s...
in Bangladesh, the trial for the 1975 assassination of the country’s...
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HILLS DISTRICT COURT GIVES FIRST DEATH SENTENCE
a Bandarban court in Bangladesh sentenced Chittagong Hill Tracts resident Belal Hossain, 25, to death for murdering his wife.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MOTHER’S SUITOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SON IN NARSINGDI
in Narsingdi, Bangladesh, Additional District Judge Abul Kashem sentenced a man to death for killing his lover’s son.
AUGUST 26, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN DINAJPUR
in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge M Shamsul Huda
- AUGUST 24, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: BANGABANDHU MURDER CASE APPEAL TO BEGIN OCT 5
the hearing on the long-pending appeals of five former army officers sentenced to death in the August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu murder case will begin at the Bangladesh Supreme Court on October 5.
- AUGUST 24, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER CASE IN MAGURA
a court in Magura, Bangladesh, sentenced three people to death and 10 others to life term imprisonment in a murder case.
AUGUST 23, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR ACID THROWING IN SIRAJGANJ
at a tribunal in Sirajganj, Bangladesh, Special Tribunal Judge Biplob Goswami convicted a man and
- AUGUST 13, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: HUSBAND GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE IN NILPHAMARI
a husband was sentenced to death and fined Taka 5,000 for killing his wife over a dowry in the Nilphamari district of Bangladesh.
- AUGUST 7, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: BANGLADESHI NATIONAL EXECUTED IN RIYADH
Muneer Ahmed Hussein Shah, a Bangladeshi national residing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was executed for murder. A statement by the Saudi Interior Ministry said Shah pleaded guilty to raping a woman, trying to suffocate her and setting her on fire.
- JULY 30, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR MURDER IN MAGURA
a court in Magura, Bangladesh, sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry on February 8, 2006.
- JULY 29, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
five men were sentenced to death in Bangladesh for raping and murdering a woman.
- JUNE 29, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING JCD LEADER IN SYLHET
at a court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Speedy Trial Judge Md Mahbubul Islam sentenced a man to death and 10 others life term imprisonment for killing Chhatra Dal leader Enam Ahmed in 2006.
- JUNE 29, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: YOUNG MAN TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE IN NILPHAMARI
a young man was sentenced to death for killing his wife for dowry at a remote village in Kishorganj upazila, Bangladesh, on May 15, 2003.
- JUNE 9, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING MAN IN NARSINGDI
five people, including four brothers, were sentenced to death and three others to life term imprisonment by a court in Narsingdi, Bangladesh.
- JUNE 2, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
EU URGES BANGLADESH EXPLANATION OVER "EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS" - PAPER
the European Commission urged the Bangladeshi government to make its position clear on the death penalty and extra-judicial killing, and to improve the conditions in the prisons.
- MAY 20, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE IN SYLHET
Judge M Mahbub-Ul-Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, sentenced three people to death and fined them Tk 20,000 each.
- MAY 17, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH, ANOTHER GIVEN LIFE TERM IN SYLHET
a court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, sentenced a man to death and another to life term imprisonment in a drug case
- MAY 7, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 3 SIBLINGS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN CHUADANGA
three siblings were sentenced to death in absentia for the abduction and murder of a co-villager on December 25, 2005, at Jibonnagar in Chuadanga, Bangladesh.
- MAY 4, 2009QatarDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: DUO’S DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED
a Doha appeals court in Qatar commuted the death penalty given to two Bangladeshi men, one a minor, by a lower court to a life sentence and a 10-year imprisonment.
- MAY 3, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER CASE IN CTG
judge Shafiqul Karim of the Chittagong Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal...
- APRIL 26, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: SC GRANTS LEAVE-TO-APPEAL AGAINST THE HC VERDICT
the Supreme Court in Bangladesh granted five prisoners leave-to-appeal against their death sentences.
- APRIL 18, 2009BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN: DEATH RULING UPHELD
the Supreme Civil Appeals Court in Bahrain upheld the death penalty against a Bangladeshi man convicted of the murder of his compatriot.
- MARCH 18, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING GIRL AFTER RAPE IN C’NAWABGANJ
a court in Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh, sentenced two people to death for killing an adolescent girl after raping her.
- FEBRUARY 24, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE GET DEATH PENALTY FOR WOMEN TRAFFICKING
three people were sentenced to death in Bangladesh in 77 women trafficking cases from
- FEBRUARY 19, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH GOVT APPROVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR TERRORISTS
the Bangladesh government approved the Anti-Terrorism Ordinance...
- FEBRUARY 17, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESHIS ON DEATH ROW STILL AWAIT APPEALS VERDICT
eight Bangladeshi workers sentenced to death by a lower Saudi Arabian court for allegedly killing an Egyptian worker face an uncertain future while they wait for a verdict by a higher court in Riyadh.
- FEBRUARY 16, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE IN JHENIDAH
a court in Jhenidah, Bangladesh, convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife for dowry four years ago.
FEBRUARY 12, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE CONVICTS EXECUTED IN JESSORE JAIL
three convicts in the sensational Minu Ara murder case in Bangladesh were executed in the Jessore central jail.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO GO TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE IN HABIGANJ
a tribunal in Habiganj, Bangladesh, sentenced a man to death for killing his wife due to dowry.