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
- 2,108
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 2,108 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
- JANUARY 1, 2011PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH BY JIRGA
the Sukkur Circuit Bench of the Sindh High Court in Pakistan ordered the Ghotki police to register an FIR against the people who conducted a Jirga, which sentenced a couple, Jeeja Sheikh and Shaukat Sheikh, to death after declaring them Karo and Kari.
- DECEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DOUBLE DEATH FOR RAPE OF MINOR GIRL
Anti-Terrorism Court judge Syed Hasan Shah Bukhari sentenced Sher Khan to death and fined him Rs 200,000 and ordered him to pay Rs 100,000 compensation for kidnapping five-year-old girl
- DECEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 961 SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Punjab Prosecution Department in Pakistan claimed that 961 people were sentenced to death in 2010.
- DECEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Khushab, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions judge Muhammad Ittefaq Abbasi sentenced Muhammad Iqbal to death for murdering Rizwana Shaheen...
- DECEMBER 26, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE IN GIRL’S RAPE-MURDER CASE UPHELD
Justices Ahmed and Baloch of the Sindh High Court in Pakistan dismissed the appeal of Tanveer Ahmed against his death sentence by an Anti Terrorism Court for kidnapping his eight-year-old niece Iqra and later killing her in May, 2007.
- DECEMBER 25, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN MURDER CASE
in Sargodha, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Bhulwal...
- DECEMBER 18, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
in Khanpur, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions judge sentenced Mukhtar Ahmed of Chak 199/9-R to death and fined him Rs 500,000 for shooting dead Sharifan over a matrimonial issue a couple of years ago.
- DECEMBER 18, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE CONVICTED IN TWO MURDER CASES
in Kasur, Pakistan, Additional District & Sessions judge Ch Nazir Ahmed...
- DECEMBER 16, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Pakistan, Pindigheb Additional district and sessions judge Jahangir Mir sentenced Liaqut Ali Khan, Faisal Mehmood and Liaqut Mehmood, residents of Langrial village to death and fined them Rs100,000 each.
- DECEMBER 6, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhary Aurangzeb sentenced Syed Umar Khalid to death and fined him Rs400,000 for killing his cousin Nida Hussain.
- DECEMBER 3, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE TO TWO
in Sialkot, Pakistan, the Anti Terrorism Court sentenced Qasim Ali and Muhammad Nawaz to death for killing assistant sub inspector Nisar Ahmad and injuring constable Jamil during an encounter with Raiya police in village Geegeywali-Narowal on May 22, 2010
- DECEMBER 1, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CONVICT AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Sialkot District & Session Judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmed sentenced Khalid Pervaiz to death for killing Zubair Ahmed in Sialkot Kutchery over an old enmity on January 2, 2010.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LARKANA SPO AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
in Larkana, Pakistan, 7th Additional Session Judge Fida Hussain Mughal...
- NOVEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO THREE
an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced Abbad Ali, Fidda Hussain and Zulifqar to death for killing seven people during a robbery near Sheikhupura in 2009.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED
in Sambrial, Pakistan, Additional District & Session Judge Ch. Badarud Din sentenced Muhammad Afzal to death and fined him Rs. 300,000 for killing his wife Irshad Bibi over a domestic dispute in Sherabad in March 2007.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: JUDGEMENT RESERVED ON DEATH CONVICT’S APPEAL
the SHC anti-terrorism bench in Pakistan reserved its judgement on an appeal filed by Tanveer Ahmed over his death sentence for kidnapping and killing Iqra, 8, on February 25, 2007.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING EMPLOYER
in Pakistan, Additional district and session judge (south) Sagheer Ahmed Sheikh sentenced Aurangzeb to death for killing his employer Mohammad Anwar under Defence police station on September 23, 1998
- NOVEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER
in Sialkot, Pakistan, Additional District & Session Judge Sialkot Zafar Iqbal Tarar sentenced Faraz to death and fined him Rs.100,000 for murdering Bashir Ahmad...
- NOVEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
COURT STAYS PARDON OF PAKISTANI WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Pakistan, the Lahore High Court restrained Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari from granting pardon to Christian woman Aasia Bibi, who was sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy.
- NOVEMBER 27, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH FOR MURDER OF FIVE
in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Anti-Terrorism Court presiding officer Habibullah Aamir sentenced Muhammad Shafique, Sajjad Husain and Khizar Hayat, alias Khizri...
- NOVEMBER 25, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
a division bench of the Lahore High Court comprising Justices Malik and Haq commuted the death sentence of Punam Khan to life imprisonment.
NOVEMBER 20, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PRESIDENT ZARDARI STAYS EXECUTION OF ASIA BIBI
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has stayed the execution of Asia Bibi, a Christian
- NOVEMBER 7, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LHC SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE
a division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) in Pakistan set aside the death sentence and acquitted Muhammad Ishfaq as the prosecution failed to prove its case.
- NOVEMBER 7, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MILITANTS EXECUTE THREE 'US SPIES' IN PAKISTAN: OFFICIALS
militants publicly executed three local tribesmen aged 25, 28 and 32, in North Waziristan...
- NOVEMBER 7, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
a Pakistani court sentenced Asia Bibi, 37, a farm laborer from Ittanwali, Punjab
- NOVEMBER 5, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Chunian Additional District and Sessions Judge Ch Muhammad Jamil sentenced Shabbir Ahmed, Nasir Ahmed and Zawar alias Zawari to death for murdering brothers M.Iqbal and M.Tariq during a robbery in Chunian in 2009. They were also fined Rs 100,
- OCTOBER 31, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, First Additional Session Judge of the Hyderabad Districts and Session Court sentenced Jalaluddin and Moinuddin to death for killing Afzal and Musarrat on February 8, 1998, in Latifabad, Hyderabad.
- OCTOBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED
in Pakistan, Daska Additional District & Session Judge Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti sentenced Mohsin Nawaz to death and fined him Rs. 200,000 for killing Manzur Ahmad’s son over an old enmity in 2006
- OCTOBER 25, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE ON 2 COUNTS AWARDED
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorist Court Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad sentenced Tanveer Hussain to death for killing Nehal Eman, 3, after abducting her. He was also ordered to pay Rs 4 lakh as compensation and fine.
OCTOBER 22, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: TWO PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR RAPE, THEFT
Pakistanis Kahram Shah Zad and Mohammed Abdulqadeer were executed in Riyadh, Saudi