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
- 1,317
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 1,317 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
- FEBRUARY 7, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
a court in Natore, Bangladesh, sentenced Nohen Mondol to death for killing a woman after raping her. The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal acquitted two others involved in the case as their guilt was not proved.
FEBRUARY 6, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH. SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TWO SEPARATE CASES
the Meherpur district court, Bangladesh, sentenced Rustam, Rahman and Enamul to death for the murder of a trader in Ghangni.
- JANUARY 30, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. FIVE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced five people to death
- JANUARY 29, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AND TWO OTHERS TO LIFE FOR MURDER OF TRADER
the Speedy Trial Tribunal of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, sentenced Akter Hossain, 40, to death and Dulal and Anwar, both 35, to life imprisonment for the murder of cloth trader Afsar Ali.
- JANUARY 27, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. FUGITIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH ARRESTED IN MUNSHIGANJ
Faruq, a fugitive who had been sentenced to death on July 12, 2005, was arrested near his home in Bagra village in Bangladesh’s Srinagar district
- JANUARY 18, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. LAW ENFORCERS ACCUSED OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS
Bangladeshi security forces committed serious abuses in 2005 including extra-judicial killings and torture of detainees, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report.
- JANUARY 6, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF WIFE
it was reported that Rouf Mollah, a man sentenced to death for killing his wife, was to be executed at Jessore central jail, Bangladesh, at 1 minute past midnight.
- JANUARY 1, 2006BangladeshDEATH 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 27, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Bangladesh's government said it planned sweeping anti-terror legislation
Bangladesh's government said it planned sweeping anti-terror legislation
- NOVEMBER 28, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DHAKA MURDERS
a court in Bangladesh sentenced nine people to death for the grisly murders of a businessman and his son. In March 2005, the mutilated bodies of Shamsul Alam, a clothes merchant, and his son, Russel, were found in a forest near the capital, Dhaka. Only on
- NOVEMBER 14, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN EXECUTED IN COMILLA JAIL FOR KILLING WIFE
Nasiruddin, a 35-year old farmer, was executed in Comilla Central Jail, Bangladesh, at 12:30 am for the murder of his wife Marjina in March 1996.
- OCTOBER 27, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF WIFE
the Noakhali district court, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Arifur Rahman for murdering his young wife after failing to obtain dowry from her parents at Char Bata, Subarna Char district.
- OCTOBER 27, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. 6 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF CO-VILLAGER
an Additional District and Sessions court in Manikganj, Bangladesh, sentenced to death six men for killing a neighbour at Garakol, Sadar district.
- OCTOBER 24, 2005BangladeshDEATH 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.
- OCTOBER 23, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. HUSBAND OF TELEVISION STAR TO HANG FOR HER MURDER
a court in Bangladesh sentenced Abul Kaiser Chisti, the husband of a high-profile television presenter, to death by hanging after convicting him of her murder. Irin, 32, the presenter of a prime-time variety show, was gunned down in front of her four-year
- OCTOBER 19, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. COUNTRY CRITICISED FOR "CHILD" DEATH SENTENCE
the international children's charity Save the Children, criticized the case of Sukur Ali a man sentenced to death for crimes he committed when he was 14 years old.
- OCTOBER 9, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING HIS FATHER
a court in Feni, Bangladesh, sentenced a man to death for killing his septuagenarian father.
- OCTOBER 4, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. 7 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a Speedy trial tribunal in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, sentenced to death four people and gave life terms to six others for the murder of Khaleque at Dashuria in Pabna district.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. HIGH SECURITY JAIL TO BE BUILT FOR DEATH ROW PRISONERS
a high security jail for prisoners on death row would be built at Kashimpur in Gazipur, Bangladesh, as the number of death row convicts was rising due to the lengthy process of execution of the death penalty.
- AUGUST 31, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. SEVEN PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a speedy trial tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Sohel Riaz Pappu, Shahriar Hossain Jashim, Laluuddin Lalu, Mir Mohammad Riaz, Shah Alam, Ratan and Tipu after convicting them of murdering a young man in the capital’s Mohammadpur area.
- AUGUST 24, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING WIFE IN BARISAL
qbal Hossain, 30, was convicted and condemned to death by a court Barisal, Bangladesh, for the murder of his wife.
- AUGUST 22, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. 10 MEN SENT TO THE GALLOWS
ten men were sentenced to death and 16 others to life imprisonment in two separate murder cases in Dhaka and Sylhet, Bangladesh.
- AUGUST 18, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH, THREE OTHERS TO LIFE FOR MURDER
a court in Sherpur, Bangladesh, sentenced M. Selim Mahamud Helal, 22, to death and three others to life imprisonment for murder
- AUGUST 11, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Rangpur, Bangladeh, sentenced Harun Mia, 30, to death after convicting him of killing his wife.
- AUGUST 9, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH, TWO OTHERS TO LIFE TERM
the Chittagong Metropolitan and Sessions Court, Bangladesh, sentenced two people to death and two others to life term imprisonment for murder. Nasiruddin alias Nasira of Chandanagar and Abdul Malek of Jalalabad were condemned to the death by the court, wh
- AUGUST 9, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
Mollah Mostafa Kamal, Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Rangpur, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Akinoor Rahman alias Akibul after conviocting him of killing his wife.
- AUGUST 8, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
three people were sentenced to death, one in absentia, by a court in Satkhira, Bangladesh, for killing a UP member at Baikari village, Sadar district.
- AUGUST 8, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO YOUNG MEN SENT TO THE GALLOWS
the district court of Munshinganj, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Monir Hossain, 26, for the murder of his elder brother in Nayagaon, Sadar, on August 1, 2005.
- JULY 31, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. ELEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
eleven persons, including two young women, were sentenced to death for the murder of a business tycoon of old Dhaka city, Mohamed Alam.
- JULY 30, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN TO GO GALLOWS FOR MURDER
Kudrat Ullah, 25, and his accomplice Mohammad Yahya, 30, were sentenced to death by a District and Sessions court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, for the murder of a neighbour in a dispute in Sripur in 2003.