Pakistan
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 · In December 1998, the Government set up military trial...
- News items in the archive
- 2,105
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Pakistan 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 2,105 news items on Pakistan, from 1999 to today.
In Pakistan the death penalty applies to a very wide list of offences, from murder to terrorism to blasphemy, and the method is hanging. The country observed a de facto moratorium for some years, broken after the attack on the school in Peshawar in 2014.
Pakistan's death row is among the most populated in the world. The archive follows executions, sentences, appeals and the cases of people with mental disabilities.
Latest news
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE BANDITS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RANGERS MAN IN KARACHI
An antiterrorism court sentenced three men to death on September 7, 2018 in a case pertaining to killing of a Rangers soldier and wounding a policeman during an armed robbery.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ARMY CHIEF CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 13 TALIBAN
Pakistan's army chief has confirmed death sentences for 13 "hardcore terrorists" after military courts found them guilty of carrying out attacks that killed 202 people including 151 civilians.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDERER OF TWO POLICE PERSONNEL HANGED IN KASUR JAIL
A death convict involved in killing of police personnel was hanged in Kasur Jail.
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FIVE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE IN CHITRAL
A Chitral court sentenced to death five persons on three counts each
- AUGUST 31, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO MQM MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING PTI LEADER ZAHRA SHAHID
Concluding the trial of the murder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Zahra Shahid, an anti-terrorism court sentenced the two accused – Rashid and Zahid Abbas Zaidi – to death.
AUGUST 30, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 16,000 ARRESTED FOR TERRORISM, 1,900 PUNISHED, 346 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2013-17, SENATE TOLD
The Interior Ministry has told the Senate that from 2013 to 2017, over 16,000 people were arrested for terrorism charges and 1,900 were awarded punishments.
AUGUST 4, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
The Judge of Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) Atiqur Rehman Bhindar awarded three times death sentences to an accused involved in a double murder case.
AUGUST 4, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: IMRAN ALI SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KASUR RAPE AND MURDER CASES
A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of three girls in Kasur city of Pakistan.
JULY 19, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC ACQUITS THREE DEATH-ROW CONVICTS
The Supreme Court acquitted three convicts after seven years who had been awarded death sentence by the Balochistan High Court in a case related to a Sibi terrorist attack in 2011.
JULY 13, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ARMY CHIEF CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY OF 12 HARDCORE TERRORISTS
Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed the death sentence to another 12 "hardcore terrorists,"
JULY 3, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH BECAUSE HER BROTHER RAPED HER
In Pakistan, a 19-year-old woman was sentenced to death after she accused her brother of raping her, threatening with a gun.
JULY 2, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ARMY CHIEF CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 12 HARDCORE TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed death sentences of 12 “hardcore terrorists”, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
JUNE 12, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN - DEATH FOR CHILD KILLER
KILLED 8 CHILDREN
MAY 24, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT GETS DEATH SENTENCE
A court sentenced a man to death for his involvement in a murder case in Daska.
MAY 9, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING PRAYER LEADER
A convict was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in a sectarian killing case pertaining to the murder of a prayer leader in Karachi.
- APRIL 11, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ‘PRESIDENT REJECTED 513 MERCY PETITIONS OF DEATH ROW PRISONERS IN LAST FIVE YEARS’
Pakistan is among the five most prolific executioners in the world with 487 executions in the last three years, while the president has rejected 513 mercy petitions in the last five years, a report launched on April 11 has found.
APRIL 11, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ANTI-TERRORISM COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE ON THREE COUNTS TO RAPIST
Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) Malakand awarded three counts of death sentence to one Jumaraz who was convicted of rape and killing of five years old Madeha Tariq in Besham area of District Shangla.
APRIL 10, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TRIPLE MURDER CONVICT HANGED
A murder convict was hanged at the Central Jail Faisalabad.
APRIL 6, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN ACQUITTED AFTER 20 YEARS ON DEATH ROW
A Pakistani woman infamously put on death row for killing her family in 1998 has been acquitted and walked free after 20 years in prison, her lawyer said.
- MARCH 23, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY ACQUITTED
A Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy nearly two years ago has been acquitted.
MARCH 20, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO RAPIST, MURDERER OF MINOR GIRL
Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) gave death sentence to a convict involved in rape and murder of a minor girl in Quetta.
- MARCH 12, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ARMY COURTS AWARDED DEATH TO 186 PERSONS SINCE 2015
A total of 486 cases have come before the military courts since their inception in the year 2015.
- MARCH 3, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH, THREE LIFE IN GIRL’S MURDER CASE
A convict was handed down death sentence while three others were awarded life imprisonment in an honour killing case in Nowshera.
- FEBRUARY 28, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MURDERER AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional district and sessions judge, Shakeel Ahmad Sipra awarded death sentence to an accused of a murder case.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO KILLER IN FAISALABAD
The sessions court in Faisalabad awarded death sentence on two counts to an accused involved in a double murder case in limits Chak Jhumra police station.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MURDERER OF THREE HANGED IN HARIPUR JAIL
A man who killed three persons during a Jirga in Mardan in 2003 was hanged in District Jail Haripur.
- FEBRUARY 2, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MURDERER GETS DEATH SENTENCE
A Kasur court sentenced a man to death for strangling his wife.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO ACCUSED IN MURDER CASE
The additional district and sessions judge, Lakki Marwat awarded death sentence to an accused in the murder case of the brother of a girl who had refused to marry him.
- JANUARY 31, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CONDEMNED PRISONER EXECUTED
A condemned prisoner was executed in Central Jail Faisalabad.
- JANUARY 23, 2018PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO CONVICTS HANGED IN HARIPUR CENTRAL JAIL
Two convicted prisoners of death sentence were hanged in Haripur Central Jail in the morning.