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
- AUGUST 20, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
JMB MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR JAMALPUR KILLING
a Dhaka court sentenced a Majlish-e-Shura member of the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh...
- AUGUST 19, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SYLHET
in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud sentenced a man to death for killing his wife.
- AUGUST 13, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FOUR TO GO TO GALLOWS IN NARAIL DOUBLE MURDER CASE
at a District and Sessions court in Bangladesh, Judge M Abdul Majid sentenced four members of a family to death for murder.
- AUGUST 6, 2007MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESHI TO HANG IN MALAYSIA FOR MUDER
the Malaysian High Court sentenced a Bangladesh national, Shamim Reza Abdul Samad...
- AUGUST 2, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS WIFE IN SATKHIRA
Judge Mohammad Mutajidur Rahman of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Satkhira, Bangladesh, convicted a man and awarded him capital punishment for killing his wife four years ago.
- AUGUST 1, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING HOUSEWIFE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Reza Tarique Ahmed awarded two men capital punishment for killing a housewife at Chachoir village in Sadar upazila, Bangladesh, seven years ago
JULY 31, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH. 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHITTAGONG
a divisional special court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced two people to death
- JULY 29, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING HIS WIFE IN LAXMIPUR
a special court in Laxmipur, Bangladesh, convicted a man and sentenced him to death for murdering his wife in 1999.
- JULY 26, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHUADANGA
Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Motahar Hossain sentenced three men to death for of killing two women after raping them
JULY 24, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH. 12 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
twelve people were sentenced to death and eight to life imprisonment by a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in the sensational Jan-e-Alam murder case
- JULY 12, 2007MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING SEVEN FAMILY MEMBERS
Bangladeshi Md Masud Rana Md Mofizuddin...
- JULY 9, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
HUSBAND HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR DOWRY MURDER
a court in Panchagarh, Bangladesh, awarded the death penalty to a man for killing his wife for dowry on July 31, 2004
- JUNE 28, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO YOUNG MEN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR RAPE AND MURDER
in Bangladesh, Divisional Speedy Trial Judge Nurul Huda handed down the death penalty to Farhad, 18, and Shafiqul, 20, of Sardarkandi village for the rape and murder of a minor girl on the bank of river Padma in Munshiganj upazila a year ago.
- JUNE 28, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO MEN TO WALK TO GALLOWS FOR MURDER IN RAJSHAHI
in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Judge ATM Mesbahul Udola of the Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced to death Jamshed Ali and Toimur of the Belpara village in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district.
- JUNE 26, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLDESH: COURT STAYS DEATH PENALTY OF 1975 COUP CONVICT
the Bangladesh Supreme Court stayed the execution of the death penalty...
- JUNE 19, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CITTAGONG
a court in Bangladesh sentenced a man to death for killing his wife nearly four years ago for dowry.
- JUNE 19, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
in Bangladesh, Judge AMM Syed sentenced Ismail Hossain...
in Bangladesh, Judge AMM Syed sentenced Ismail Hossain...
- JUNE 19, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESHI ARMY OFFICER TO FACE DEATH PENALTY
a former Bangladesh army officer arrested in the United States...
- JUNE 18, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN RAJSHAHI
a Bangladeshi court convicted a man of killing his sister three years ago and awarded him the death penalty.
- JUNE 6, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH ONE CONDEMNED TO DEATH IN DINAJPUR FOR KILLING WIFE
a court in Bangladesh sentenced Ramjan Ali, 38, to death for killing his wife in 1999.
- JUNE 3, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH FOUR YOUNG MEN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR MURDER
four young men in Bangladesh are to walk the gallows for the murder of another young man in Uttara two years ago.
- MAY 30, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH HUSBAND TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE IN PATUAKHALI
Abdul Khalek Gharami, 46, of Guabaria village in Galachipa Upazila, Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by District and Sessions Judge M Majnul Ahsan for killing his wife in 2005.
- APRIL 24, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER IN NAOGAON
the district and sessions judge’s court in Bangladesh sentenced two men to death in absentia for a double murder at Biswaspur in Patnitala Upazila eleven years ago.
- APRIL 24, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 7 TO LIFE TERM FOR MURDER IN CTG
a special court in Bangladesh sentenced four people to death and seven to life imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2003.
- APRIL 22, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PABNA FOR KILLING WIFE
a tribunal in Pabna, Bangladesh, sentenced Hiru Sheikh...
- APRIL 11, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JHALAKATI
a man was sentenced to death in Jhalakati, Bangladesh.
MARCH 30, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH. SIX TOP ISLAMIC MILITANTS EXECUTED
six Islamic militant leaders accused of carrying out a deadly bomb attack in November 2005 in Bangladesh
- MARCH 29, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
TWO YOUNG MEN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR MURDER OF COLLEAGUE
a speedy trial tribunal court in Bangladesh sentenced two officials of the National Life Insurance Company to death for the murder of their colleague at Kaliganj last year.
- MARCH 28, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF A CONSTABLE
the Bangladesh High Court confirmed the death penalty awarded in absentia to a police constable by the district court for shooting down a maidservant 11 years ago.
- MARCH 27, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH TWO TO WALK GALLOWS FOR HEROIN DEAL
heroin dealers Shyam Dulal Dev Nath (35) and Saiful Islam (30) were sentenced to death by the Mirpur District Court, in Bangladesh.