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
- MARCH 11, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Chakwal, Pakistan, District and Sessions Judge Sohail Akram sentenced Shaukat Iqbal, Qasim Naseeb and Atif Khalid, all residents of Waula village of tehsil Choa Syedan Shah, to death for murdering Mudassir Nafees on March 27, 2009.
- MARCH 10, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SIX GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional District and Sessions Judge Jazila Aslam sentenced Sarja, Rehmat
- MARCH 9, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Joharabad District and Sessions Judge Mian Mureed Hussain sentenced Wali Daad to death for gunning down Muhammad Ashraf over water dispute on February 25, 2009, under Quaidabad Police Station. He was also ordered to pay Rs 100,000 compensatio
MARCH 9, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: BLASPHEMY ACCUSED GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Jhelum, Pakistan, Additional Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Zargham sentenced Malik Ashraf
- MARCH 7, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Chakwal Additional District & Sessions Judge Abu-Al-Hasnat Zulqarnain...
- MARCH 4, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Attock, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Anwar Ahmed Khan sentenced Syedan Shah, resident of Khyber Agency, to death and fined him Rs200,000 for smuggling 15 kg of heroin in October 2010 in Attock.
- MARCH 4, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Ferozewala Additional District and Sessions Judge Khalid Nawaz Dar sentenced Mubashir, alias Bashiri, to death and fined him Rs 100,000 for killing Muhammad Mehboob Ayub of Cheecho Kee Maliyaan over a minor issue in 2003.
- MARCH 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY AWARDED FOR KIDNAPPING
in Sargodha, Pakistan, anti-terrorism court Judge Muhammad Anwar Nazir sentenced Abid Ali to death for kidnapping and murdering Muhammad Ismail...
- MARCH 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MOVE TO ABOLISH DEATH SENTENCE TO BE RESISTED
in Pakistan, Jamaat e Islami secretary general Liaquat Baloch said the JI would resist every move to abolish death sentence.
MARCH 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MINORITY MINISTER KILLED
Pakistan's religious minority minister, the Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, has been killed in Islamabad
- FEBRUARY 28, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE, FINE
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sohail Ikram sentenced Muhammad Shabbir to death and fined him Rs 100,000 for stabbing Muhammad Ashraf to death over a minor domestic dispute on August 1, 2009.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE
in Attock, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions Judge of Fatehjang sentenced Mumraiz Khan to death and fined him Rs200,000 in a murder case.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Kasur District and Sessions Judge Nazir Ahmad Gajana sentenced Muhammad Saleem to death and fined him Rs 160,000 for killing Muhammad Asif over a minor issue in Cheena Ottar village in 2008, under Kot Radha Kishan police station.
- FEBRUARY 25, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 GET DEATH ON 2 COUNTS IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional District and Sessions Judge Jawadul Hassan sentenced Muhammad Din...
- FEBRUARY 22, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN CONDEMNED PRISONERS BEING KEPT IN DEATH CELLS IN VIOLATION OF RULES
despite the passage of four months, the Prison Department of Khyber...
- FEBRUARY 22, 2011UgandaDEATH PENALTY
UGANDA: THREE PAKISTANIS TO HANG FOR MURDER
Justice Catherine Bamugemereire of the Ugandan High Court sentenced Pakistani nationals Ahmed Naveed, 28, Hussein Muzaffar...
- FEBRUARY 21, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ACCUSED GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Upper Dir District and Sessions Judge Sardar Mohammad Irshad sentenced Abdul Hakim of Serai Bandai Khwar to death for the honour killing of his brother's wife Saleema Bibi in 2009
FEBRUARY 21, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MUMBAI ATTACK
an appeals court in India confirmed the conviction and death sentence for the only surviving
- FEBRUARY 18, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
in Kot Momin, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Zia Ullah Khan Niazi sentenced Ghulam Abbas to death and fined him Rs 100,000 for murdering rival Shaukat on March 12, 2008, under Jhal Chakian police station.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH FOR KILLING CHILD
an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, Pakistan, sentenced Shaiban Akhter and Ihsan Akhter to death and 14-year vigorous imprisonment and fined them Rs 50,000 each.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Jameel Ahmed Ch sentenced Muhammad Ashraf and Nasir Mehmood to death and fined them rupees one lakh each for murdering taxi driver Waheed Ahmed by electrocution
- FEBRUARY 11, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR THREE IN RAPE, MURDER
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sardar Tahir sentenced Khalid, Khurrum and Khushbakht to death for the murder and rape of a seven-year-old girl, Asia, in Saidpur in 2006. The court also sentenced them to life imprisonment and fined the
- FEBRUARY 9, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Bahawalpur Anti-terrorist Court judge Rana Muhammad Yousaf sentenced an unidentified man to death and fined him two and a half lakh for killing a police constable during an encounter.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: GILANI REJECTS PROPOSAL TO AMEND BLASPHEMY LAW
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani approved a recommendation to reject official proposals to amend Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law and to pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Prophet Mohammed.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FIVE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCES
in Pakistan, Faisalabad Anti-Terrorist Court Judge Ch. Munir Ahmed sentenced Shakeel, Qasim, Javed Iqbal, Nasir Ali and Umer Hayat to death for kidnapping Qaiser...
- FEBRUARY 9, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY ON THREE COUNT
in Sargodha, Pakistan, District and Sessions Judge Syed Hamid Hussain Shah sentenced Muhammad Farooq to death and fined him Rs 300,000 for murdering his wife and two daughters, Iqra ,4, and Insa, 5, about three years ago under Settlite Town police station
- FEBRUARY 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH UNDER BLASPHEMY LAW IN PAKISTAN
Muhammad Rafiq was sentenced to death by Additional District and Sessions Judge Malik Riaz Ahmed in Bahawalpur city, Pakistan, for committing blasphemy.
- FEBRUARY 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FOUR AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, Rawalpindi Anti Terrorist Court Judge Mohammad Akram Awan sentenced Barkat
- FEBRUARY 2, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
a man named Rafiq was sentenced to death by an additional session judge in Pakistan
- FEBRUARY 1, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: BLOOD MONEY PAID IN SHARJAH COURT
eight Indians and two Pakistanis facing the death sentence in a murder case in the United Arab Emirates got a major reprieve as a Sharjah Sharia Court authorised the payment of blood money.