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
- JUNE 1, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
in Chakwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chakwal...
in Chakwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chakwal...
- MAY 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Additional Session Judge Bedar Bakht sentenced Siddhupura resident Pervaiz to death for murdering Ms Musarrat Bibi over a domestic dispute by burning her alive on February 14, 2008
- MAY 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF SON IN LAW
in Pakpattan, Pakistan, an Additional Session Judge sentenced Sadiq, a Tandu Allah Yar resident, to death and fined him rupees 2-Lac for stabbing his son in law Kashif to death at mohallah Muzaffarabad-Arifwala over the petty matter of serving him tea lat
- MAY 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Mansehra, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Shafique Ahmad Tanoli sentenced brothers Mohammad Irfan and Mohammad Adnan to death for murdering their father Misal Khan with an axe in Oghi, Rashid Abad area, over a domestic issue in 2009.
- MAY 28, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions judge Raja Pervaiz Akhtar sentenced Abdul Ghafoor to death for killing Mehboob Hussain and Saifullah in the area of Rawat police station over a property issue on June 22, 1997.
- MAY 27, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED
in Sialkot, Pakistan, Additional District & Session Judge Narowal Musharraf Hassan...
- MAY 22, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH FOR FIVE FOR KIDNAPPING
a Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Ikram Shah
- MAY 21, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE ON FIVE COUNTS
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Tanvir Akbar sentenced Khadim Hussain and Saeed Akhtar to death for murdering Jamshed Khan and his family with knives and axes on January 20, 2008.
- MAY 15, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
in Sahiwal, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Owais Ashraf Gilani sentenced Munzoor Ahmad to death for murder and fined him Rs 200,000.
- MAY 6, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MUMBAI GUNMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
in India, judge M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Pakistani Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab
- MAY 5, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Sargodha, Pakistan, three militants were sentenced to death by Anti-Terrorism Court judge Mian Muhammad Anwar Nazir for killing eight police officials and blowing up a check-post at Qudratabad on February 7, 2009.
- MAY 1, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN INVOLVED IN MURDER CASE SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Mianwali, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions judge Mushtaq Elahi Bangi sentenced Tahir Hameed to death.
- APRIL 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, Syed Hasan Shah Bukhari of the Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced Kamran Yousuf and Farhan Hashmi to death for murdering policeman Mohammad Ashraf on June 30, 2006, in the limits of the Shara-e-Faisal police station
- APRIL 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
the Lahore High Court in Pakistan acquitted three brothers convicted of murder.
the Lahore High Court in Pakistan acquitted three brothers convicted of murder.
- APRIL 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
Judge Syed Hasan Shah Bukhari of the Anti-terrorism court 1 in Karachi, Pakistan...
- APRIL 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN, SONS SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, an additional district and sessions judge sentenced Mauladad and his sons Mohammad Imran and Mohammad Mutahir to death for killing a union council nazim Raja Riasat and his son Hamid Mehmood on October 13, 2009, over a property is
- APRIL 28, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajjad Hussain Sundhar sentenced Muhammad Rasib to death for killing Muhammad Aqeel in 2006.
- APRIL 28, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Gujranwala, Pakistan, Special Court No 2 Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad sentenced Shahwez to death for killing four people in Kunjah. According to a handout issued here Tuesday, two accused have already been sentenced to death five times in the same case.
- APRIL 27, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Shaukat Kamal Dar sentenced Muhammad Faisal of Fauji Chowk Peoples Colony to death for killing his friend Muhammad Siddique over a monetary dispute on July 24, 2009.
- APRIL 26, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC UPHOLDS CONVICT’S DEATH SENTENCE
Justices Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Syed Zakir Hussain of the Sindh High Court in Pakistan upheld the death sentence awarded in 2007 by the Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court V to Saleem Ahmed Bablu for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl.
- APRIL 22, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT CONVICTS TWO FOR MURDER
in Gujranawala, Pakistan, Anti-Terrorism Court No.II Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan sentenced Shahwaz to death for fatally shooting Nazir Ahmad and his three sons in Shadiwal village on June 20, 2004, over a property dispute in Gujrat.
- APRIL 22, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO AWARDED DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER
in Sahiwal, Pakistan, Additional District & Session Judge Haji Ahmed sentenced Mohy-ud-din to death and fined him Rs. one-Lac for killing co-student Muhammad Rasheed with a bat during a cricket match at Government High School September 7, 2007.
- APRIL 16, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER
Special Judge Ahmad of the Lahore Anti-Terrorist Court in Pakistan sentenced Muhammad Navid, Qari Shabir and Qasim Ali to death for murder of the owner of a leather garments factory in Muridke. The three were also fined Rs 100,000 each.
- APRIL 9, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING SISTERS
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Jehangir Mir sentenced Najeeb Khan, Ghulam Farid and Sahib Khan to death for killing two sisters...
- APRIL 7, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MURDER ACCUSED GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Hasilpur, Pakistan, an Additional Session judge sentenced Ghulam Haider to death for murder.
- APRIL 3, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH IN MURDER CASE
in Burewala, Pakistan, Additional District and Session Judge Muhammad Shafique Butt sentenced Muhammad Iqbal and Basharat Ali to death for murdered Muhammad Naeem of Chak 179 E-B on June 19, 2008. They were also fined Rs 100,000 each
- MARCH 31, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN HANDED DOWN DEATH SENTENCE
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Mohammad Baig to death for killing his brother-in-law...
- MARCH 31, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC ADMITS APPEAL OF ACCUSED AGAINST THEIR DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, the Sindh High Court admitted an appeal filed by Kamran, alias Kammo, Farhan, alias Gole, and Farhan Ahmed, alias Chhota, who were sentenced to death for murdering police Head Constable Ghulam Ghaus near Malir river on October 13, 2006.
- MARCH 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING, MURDERING 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL
in Pakistan, Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Anand Ram Hotwani sentenced a man identified as Mohammad Ayub to death for kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old girl named Kulsoom.
- MARCH 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MINOR'S RAPE AND MURDER
in Pakistan, Ganjam District and Sessions Judge Raghubir Das sentenced A Chandraya, of Dayapalli village, to death for raping and murdering Chandra Lekha Das, 8, in Orissa on December 24, 2007.