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.
Latest news
- JULY 7, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. COURT SENTENCES TWO PAKISTANIS TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN
a lower court in Dhaka sentenced to death two Pakistani nationals, Rais Khan of Karachi and Alekjan of Peshwar after finding them guilty of smuggling 24 kg of heroin into the country on September 20, 1999.
- JULY 5, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. FIVE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a Speedy Trial Tribunal in Natore, Bangladesh, sentenced five men to death by hanging in the Maju murder case.
- JULY 2, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. DHAKA PLANS SPECIAL JAIL FOR DEATH ROW PRISONERS
it was reported that Bangladesh was planning a special jail for prisoners on the death row.
- JULY 1, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
a court in Bhola, Bangladesh, sentenced Nazrul Islam to death for killing his wife.
- JUNE 22, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING BOY
an Additional District and Sessions court in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, convicted Abdullah Al Mamun and sentenced him to death for killing a minor boy.
- JUNE 21, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTNCED TO DEATH IN A DOUBLE MURDER CASE IN CHITTAGONG
M. Saleh Noor, 40, was condemned to death by an Additional Sessions court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, for killing his wife and their four-month-old daughter.
- JUNE 16, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MUNSHIGANJ
a man by the name of Sobhan was sentenced to death and five others were sentenced to life imprisonment by a District and Sessions court in Munshiganj, Bangladesh, after being convicted of murder
- JUNE 15, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
Monor Miah, 32, was condemned to death by a Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, after being convicted of killing his wife.
- JUNE 15, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. INDIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
a Bangladesh court has sentenced an Indian woman to death for attempting to traffic a four-year-old boy out of the country, a court official said.
- JUNE 15, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
Monor Miah, 32, was condemned to death by a Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, after being convicted of killing his wife.
- JUNE 14, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TRADER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHITTAGONG FOR MURDER
a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, convicted Abdur Rashid, a trader, and sentenced him to death for the murder of another businessman.
- JUNE 13, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN COMILLA
two people were sentenced to death and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by an Additional District and Session court in Comilla, Bangladesh, after being convicted of murdering Zahirul Islam.
- JUNE 8, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
a court in Barisal, Bangladesh, sentenced three people to death, two to life term in jail and three others to 10 years' imprisonment for double murder.
- JUNE 5, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a 33-year-old man was executed in northern Mymensingh central jail one minute past Saturday midnight
a 33-year-old man was executed in northern Mymensingh central jail one minute past Saturday midnight
- JUNE 3, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. BROTHERS HANGED TOGETHER FOR TRIPLE MURDER
two Bangladeshi brothers walked to the gallows together and were hanged simultaneously for the murder of three people.
- MAY 25, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF TWO, ACQUITS TWO OTHERS
the High Court of Bangladesh, Dhaka, commuted the death penalties of Monir Hossain Liton and Abu Sayed, both in their early 20’s, into life imprisonment and acquitted teenagers Faisal Sharif Raju and Imran Hossain Sabuj who had previously been sentenced t
- MAY 24, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a man named M. Mohsin was sentenced to death by a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, for killing his uncle. Additional District and Sessions Judge Noor M Jahangir Sarker handed down the death sentence to Mohsin, 34, and fined him Tk 1,000.
- MAY 19, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
the Bangladesh High Court rejected appeal and confirmed the death sentence to three young men
the Bangladesh High Court rejected appeal and confirmed the death sentence to three young men awarded by the lower court for harrying to death a 10-year-old schoolgirl from Gaibandha in 2002.
- MAY 17, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a court in Manikganj, Bangladesh, sentenced Kitab Ali to death for murder.
- MAY 11, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a special court in Panchagarh, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Md Motaleb Hossain of Dimla
a special court in Panchagarh, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Md Motaleb Hossain of Dimla
- MAY 11, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. FOUR TO GO GALLOWS FOR RAPE AND MURDER
four people were condemned to death, two in absentia, by a special court in Bagerhat, Bangladesh, for violating three women and killing a male member of a family in the Sadar district in 2003.
- MAY 9, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENT TO GALLOWS FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
Shafiqul Islam Sony of Horidaspur village in Sadar, Bangladesh, was sentenced to death in absentia
- MAY 6, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN HANGED FOR POISONING WIFE
Kamal Hossain Hawlader, a man convicted of killing his teenage wife with poison after he failed to extract dowry payments from her family, was hanged at a jail in southern Bangladesh.
- MAY 4, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO AWARDED DEATH PENALTY AND TWO OTHERS LIFE IMPRISONEMT FOR MURDER
two people were sentenced to death and two others to life imprisonment by a court in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, after being convicted of murder.
- MAY 2, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH, THREE FAMILY MEMBERS TO LIFE FOR MURDER
Saiful Alam was sentenced to death in absentia, while his parents and brother were sentenced to life imprisonment by the District and Sessions court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in a double murder case.
- APRIL 28, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. THREE MEN TO DIE FOR RAPE, MURDER
three men were sentenced to death in Chandpur, Bangladesh, for the rape and murder of a woman at Hossainpur village.
- APRIL 19, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. ONE TO DIE AND TWO SENTENCED TO LIFE TERM FOR MURDER
Motahar Hossain was sentenced to death in absentia while two others were sentenced to life imprisonemtn by a court in Sherpur, Bangladesh, for murder.
- APRIL 16, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. 22 ON DEATH ROW FOR AWAMI LEADER KILLING
a Bangladesh court sentenced 22 people to death and six others to life in jail for killing Opposition lawmaker Ahsanullah Master. Ahsanullah, a senior member of Bangladesh’s main Opposition Awami League, and a young man were killed when a group of armed m
- APRIL 16, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. ONE TO DIE FOR MURDER
Dr Shamsul Huda of Kalavi union in Pirgacha, Bangladesh, was sentenced to death in Rangpur for the murder of a girl.
- APRIL 14, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. EP CALLS FOR END TO EXTRA-JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS
the EP adopted a resolution calling on the Bangladeshi government to bring an end the “Rapid Response Battalion” paramilitary operations against organised crime, which had been carrying out extra-judicial executions (more than “40 death in ambushes” a mon