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 10, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FOUR GET DEATH FOR KILLING EASYBIKE DRIVER IN JAMALPUR
A court in Jamalpur on June 9, 2024 sentenced four people to death for the murder of an Easybike driver in the district's Sarishabari upazila.
JUNE 4, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: FIVE GET DEATH PENALTY IN JASHORE MURDER CASE
A court in Jashore on May 20, 2024 sentenced five people to death for killing an easy-bike driver at Sadar upazila of the district in 2011.
MAY 29, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: BOTSWANA NATIONAL GETS DEATH PENALTY IN NARCOTICS CASE
A Dhaka court on May 27, 2024 awarded death penalty to Botswana national Lesedi Molapisi in a narcotics case filled over drug smuggling.
MAY 21, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING SHOP EMPLOYEE IN RAJSHAHI
A Rajshahi court on May 15, 2024 sentenced two persons to death for killing an employee of a mobile phone shop in the district in 2021.
MAY 16, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: HIGH COURT LIMITS SOLITARY FOR DEATH ROW INMATES
A Bangladesh court ruled on May 13, 2024 that death row prisoners could not be held in solitary confinement until their appeals had been exhausted, in what lawyers called a major rights victory for inmates.
MAY 14, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 9 TO DIE FOR KILLING JUBO LEAGUE LEADER IN CUMILLA
A Cumilla court on May 12, 2024 sentenced nine people to death for killing Jubo League leader Jamal Uddin alias Bakka Jamal in Chauddagram upazila on the district.
MAY 2, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HABIGANJ MURDER CASE
A court in Habiganj has sentenced seven people to death and 10 others to life imprisonment on the charge of killing a man at Sadar upazila in 2003.
APRIL 24, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF HIS NIECE IN NATORE
A tribunal has sentenced a man to death over the rape and murder of his niece, a student in 12th grade, in Natore’s Singra Upazila.
APRIL 23, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TRIO IN CTG
A Chattogram court on April 18, 2024 awarded death penalty to two men for killing three members of a family in city's Biyazid Bostami Thana area 19 years ago.
- APRIL 3, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: TWO SIBLINGS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CUMILLA
A court in Cumilla on April 1, 2024 sentenced two brothers to death in a case filed over the murder of a man in Titas upazila of the district in 2020.
- APRIL 1, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 4, INCLUDING WIFE, SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SAUDI EXPATRIATE OVER EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR
A Cumilla court on March 27, 2024 sentenced a woman and three other people to death for killing her husband over an extramarital affair in Cumilla's Homna upazila.
MARCH 28, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: THREE TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER IN FARIDPUR
A Faridpur court has sentenced three people to death and three others to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of a student in Nagarkanda upazila of the district.
MARCH 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2018 MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN IN CHATTOGRAM
A Chattogram court on March 9, 2024 sentenced two men to death for the murder of an elderly woman during a robbery in the city’s Sadarghat area.
MARCH 20, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING CHILD IN N'GANJ
A court in Narayanganj on March 5, 2024 sentenced four people to death for killing a schoolboy at Rupganj in the district in 2018.
MARCH 12, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN BAGERHAT
A court in Bagerhat on February 28, 2024 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife.
- MARCH 7, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MADRASA TEACHER GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING 4 CHILDREN
A Chittagong court on February 18, 2024 sentenced a madrasa teacher to death for raping four children of the institution.
FEBRUARY 26, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 11 TO DIE FOR KILLING SCHOOL STUDENT IN JOYPURHAT 21YRS AGO
A court in Joypurhat on January 31, 2024 sentenced 11 people to death for killing a ninth grader in Sadar upazila 21 years ago.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: COURT SENTENCES 10, INCLUDING EX-AL LEADER RUHUL AMIN, TO DEATH IN NOAKHALI ELECTION DAY RAPE CASE
A court in Bangladesh on February 5, 2024 sentenced 10 people to death and another six to life sentences in prison for the gang rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Subarnachar on the day of the 11th national election.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN TO BE HANGED FOR KILLING WIFE 13YRS AGO IN NATORE
A Natore court on January 12, 2024 sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in Singra Upazila of the district 13 years ago.
- JANUARY 22, 2024BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 5 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WOMAN AFTER RAPE IN SHARIATPUR
A court sentenced five persons to death in Bangladesh for killing a woman after gang-raping her in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur in 2019.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER WAR CRIMES IN BAGERHAT
A tribunal has sentenced seven people to death for committing a series of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, in Bagerhat during the 1971 Liberation War.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DAUGHTER IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on November 26, 2023 sentenced a young man to death for killing his daughter at Salanga upazila in the district in 2022.
NOVEMBER 27, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, CHILD IN JHENIDAHA
Jhenidah court on November 27, 2023 sentenced a young man to death for killing his wife and child in 2016 at Shailkupa upazila in the district.
NOVEMBER 20, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 3 GET DEATH PENALTY, 2 LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR SMUGGLING GOLD IN JASHORE
A Jashore court has sentenced three people to death, two to life-term imprisonment for smuggling 624 bars of gold across the Jashore border in Sharsha.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MENTALLY CHALLENGED WOMAN AFTER RAPE
A court in Manikganj on November 15, 2023 sentenced a man to death on the charge of killing a mentally challenged woman after rape at Singair upazila in the district in 2019.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE IN NATORE
A tribunal in Natore on November 15, 2023 convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 2018.
NOVEMBER 12, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TWO GET DEATH FOR MURDERING HOUSEWIFE IN MANIKGANJ
A court in Bangladesh on November 8, 2023 handed down the death penalty to two people for murdering a housewife in Manikganj in 2020.
NOVEMBER 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES
Two men were handed the death penalty on October 30, 2023 in Natore and Sirajganj on charges of killing their wives.
NOVEMBER 2, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: TOP COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 7 MILITANTS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR 2016 CAFE ATTACK
Bangladesh’s High Court on October 30, 2023 commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants to life in prison for their role in a 2016 attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, that killed 20 people, mostly foreigners.
- OCTOBER 29, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2016 MURDER OF PREGNANT HABIGANJ HOUSEWIFE
A court in Bangladesh on October 26, 2023 sentenced five members of a family to death for the murder of Ayesha Akhtar in Habiganj’s Chunarughat.