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
- 2,092
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 2,092 news items on Pakistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- AUGUST 12, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER FATAL SHOOTING OF TEEN
a Pakistani court sentenced paramilitary soldier Shahid Zafar to death and fined him $2,300 for shooting unarmed teenager Sarfraz Shah in the southern port city of Karachi in June.
- AUGUST 12, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR RAWALPINDI ATTACK ACCUSED
a former Army man has been sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan for the attack on the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in October 2009.
- JULY 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: QASAB APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 23, appealed his death sentence to the Indian Supreme Court for the November 26, 2008, terror attacks in Mumbai.
JULY 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT MOVED TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Barrister Zafarullah Khan of Watan Party, filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan
- JULY 22, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING DAUGHTER IN PAKISTAN
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Tahir Khan Niazi sentenced Khalid Ameen, a Baghbanpuraa resident, to death for raping his 15-year-old daughter continuously for one month before May 18, 2008. Parveen, Ameen's wife, registered an inciden
- JULY 21, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR DRUG PUSHING
in Lahore, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hasnat Zulqarnain sentenced Naseer Ahmad to death and fined him Rs. 200,000 for peddling 120 kilograms of hashish and 10 kilograms of opium.
- JULY 20, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR KILLING IMPERIAL CINEMA OWNER
in Lahore, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahzad Kayani sentenced brothers Ali and Nadeem Abbas to death for killing Nasim Sharif, over her ownership of the Imperial Cinema.
- JULY 18, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE
in Sahiwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Allah Bakhsh and Noor Muhammad to death for murdering Ratti Tibbi of Chak 88/6/R, in the remit Farid Town Police.
- JULY 16, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH
in Pakistan, Liaqatpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Masood Hussain sentenced Karim Bux, Allah Bux, Shafi to death and fined them Rs 500,000 each for shooting dead Zahoor Ahmad over an old enmity.
JULY 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Pakistan, Sahiwal Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahbaz Ahmad
- JULY 6, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FOUR AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Karachi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge
- JULY 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: INMATE ESCAPES THE GALLOWS SIXTEEN TIMES
the execution of Jalal Morejo in Pakistan is scheduled for July 14, 2011, after the Naushehro Feroz additional district and sessions judge issued the black warrant.
- JUNE 30, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorist Court No-I Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan
- JUNE 30, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Additional District And Sessions Judge Muhammad Nazir Chaudhry sentenced Nasir Khan to death and fined him Rs200,000. RA Bazaar Police Station registered a case against him for killing Mir Afzal on July 7, 2009.
- JUNE 28, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional district & sessions Judge Syed Khursheed
- JUNE 27, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 10
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, ATC No.1 Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad
- JUNE 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR MOLESTING, KILLING BOY
in Chakwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Asghar Khan sentenced Mohammad Yaqub, a resident of Dera Ghazi Khan
- JUNE 22, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WIFE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Iqbal sentenced Faisal Taj to death and fined him Rs100,000.
JUNE 21, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
an additional district and sessions judge in Talagang, Pakistan, sentenced a man to death
- JUNE 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR ABDUCTING, KILLING BOY
in Pakistan, anti-terrorism court Judge Tahir Pervaiz sentenced Muhammad Abid to death, find him Rs 200,000, and ordered the confiscation of his assets.
- JUNE 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Sialkot District and Session Judge Manzoor Hussain Dogar sentenced Muhammad Yousaf to death and life imprisonment and fined him seventy thousand rupees.
- JUNE 9, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE
a Saudi court sentenced an unidentified Pakistani to death for raping a girl and filming her for blackmail. Police arrested the bus driver in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah after the university student complained that he raped her inside the universit
- JUNE 1, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER
in Karachi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Court judge Sagheer Ahmed Shaikh, of the East Judicial Complex, sentenced Mohammad Ovais...
- MAY 28, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING TEENAGER
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge South Abdul Razzak sentenced Mohammed Yousuf...
- MAY 19, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TRIPLE MURDER CASE ACCUSED GETS DEATH
in Pakistan, Chakwal Additional District and Sessions Judge Nisar Baig sentenced Tariq Hussain to death and fined him rupees one lack for his involvement in the famous triple murder case of Kahut village...
- MAY 18, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi District and Sessions Judge Nazir Ahmed Kajana...
- MAY 18, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE TO JUVENILES
National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) and organizations working in Pakistan
- MAY 17, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Vehari, Pakistan, District and Sessions Judge M Sadique sentenced Rizwan to death and seven years imprisonment for shooting dead Muhamad Javed on a road while stealing his bike in the limits of Police Station Vehari.
- MAY 14, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH 7 TIMES
in Sargodha, Pakistan, Special Anti-Terrorist Court Judge Mian Anwar Nazir sentenced Asad to death seven times, 94 years in jail and fined him Rs1.2 million and Rs 670,000 for having killed six people.
- MAY 11, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional district & session judge Jazila Aslam sentenced Imran and Tariq to death for killing Siddique Akbar when resisted during a robbery some 18 months back under Saddar police station.