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
- JUNE 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC DISMISSES APPEALS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Sindh High Court in Pakistan dismissed appeal challenging capital punishment awarded to two accused by Special Judge-II (CNS) Karachi.
- JUNE 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
2 BROTHERS AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER OF COUSIN
the court of Additional Sessions Judge Gambat Syed Manzar Hussain Zaidi awarded capital punishment to two brothers in Khairpur, Pakistan.
- JUNE 16, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF THREE KIDNAP ACCUSED SET ASIDE
the Sindh High Court (SHC) in Pakistan set aside the death sentences awarded to three accused in the kidnapping of an Aligarh University student in 2005
JUNE 16, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY
Additional district and session judge Kasur Aaqil Hussain Chohan awarded the death
- MAY 26, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC DISMISSES APPEAL OVER DOUBLE MURDER
the Appellate Bench of the Sindh High Court in Pakistan dismissed the appeal of a man sentenced to death for murdering two people in Karachi in 2002.
- MAY 18, 2009United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: PAKISTANI’S DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD IN DUBAI
a clerk who convicted of murdering a guard and setting a showroom on fire after failing to steal Dh458,000 had his death sentence confirmed by the Dubai Court of Cassation.
- MAY 17, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN EXECUTE FC SOLDIER IN MOHMAND
local Taliban in the Mohmand Agency in Pakistan executed a soldier of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).
- MAY 12, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mehr Tahir Nawaz sentenced Ilyas, of chak 71-JBalong, to death.
- MAY 8, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Masood Akhtar awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on him.
- MAY 8, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LHC CJ CALLS RECORD OF DEATH ROW CONVICT FOR 16 YEARS
Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif took suo motu notice of a condemned prisoner, Aftab Masih, who has been on death row for the past 16 years because his appeal has not been heard.
- MAY 5, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC ACQUITS TWO IN SHERATON HOTEL BLAST CASE
the Sindh High Court (SHC) in Pakistan acquitted two men charged with a bomb blast outside the Karachi Sheraton Hotel in May 2002 that killed several people
- MAY 2, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PAK DEATH ROW PRISONER SEEKS HELP FROM BILAWAL
the legal team for a Pakistani death row prisoner wrote an open letter to ruling PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, asking him to help commute the death sentence into life imprisonment.
- APRIL 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SON AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE, FATHER ACQUITTED
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mustafa Tanvir Safwat awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and imposed a fine of Rs100,000. Muhammad Ikhlaq, his father Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Ashfaq, Muhammad Zulfiqar and Muhamma
- APRIL 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
an anti-terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, handed down the death sentence to two for kidnapping and killing a boy for ransom.
- APRIL 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF 3 CONVICTS COMMUTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
in Pakistan, a bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Chief Justice Muhammad Bilal Khan and Justice Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry commuted the death sentence of three convicts in a narcotics case into life imprisonment.
- APRIL 28, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Abdul Haq awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to a woman for the murder of woman’s husband.
- APRIL 21, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN EXECUTES TWO CHRISTIANS IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN
International Christian Concern (ICC) learned that the Taliban in Pakistan executed two residents after Christians held a rally protesting graffiti ordering them to convert to Islam or die.
- APRIL 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
a division bench of the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, consisting of Justice Tariq Shamim and Justice Saifur Rehman, reduced the death sentence of three robbers, including two women, to life imprisonment.
- APRIL 16, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING THEIR FATHER
two brothers in Sindh, Pakistan, were condemned to death. Malik Dino and Muhammad Khan allegedly killed their father, Badaruddin Mangrejo, and threw his body into the canal in 2007.
APRIL 13, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ISLAMIC LAW NOW OFFICIAL FOR SWAT VALLEY
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari signed a controversial bill introducing Islamic
APRIL 10, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDS, WOMEN ABOLISHED
the Lahore High Court in Pakistan abolished the death sentence for under-trial women
- APRIL 9, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH ROW REPRIEVE
Dr Irfan Zafar told a Pakistani newspaper that the execution of Dr Zulfiqar Ali Khan was stayed for a month by the president.
- APRIL 7, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH FOR DRUG-PEDDLING
Special Anti-Narcotics Court Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam sentenced a man to death for drug pushing and jailed his two accomplices.
APRIL 7, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THREE PAKISTANIS BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded three Pakistanis convicted of killing a fellow Pakistani man, the Interior Ministry said in a statement in state news agency SPA.
- APRIL 2, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LHC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF TWO CONVICTS
a division bench of the Lahore High Court in Pakistan upheld the death sentence of Shahbaz and his friend Nasrullah in a murder case
MARCH 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 114 ON DEATH ROW AT CPK
at least 114 convicted criminals lodged in the CPK in Pakistan are waiting to be hanged in their death cells.
MARCH 29, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYUNITED ARAB EMIRATES: COURT UPHOLDS FIRST DEATH SENTENCE SINCE 2005
the Dubai Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates upheld the death sentence of a
- MARCH 28, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Iteffaq Abbasi awarded the death sentence to an accused and acquitted another in a murder case in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Muhammad Nouman and Muhammad Irfan were charged with killing Muhammad Kamran on August
- MARCH 26, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SON-IN-LAW
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions (ADS) Judge Khalid Mehmood Ranjha awarded capital punishment to a man for killing his son-in-law who married his daughter without his consent
- MARCH 26, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED IN LAHORE
a Division Bench of the Lahore High Court converted the death penalty of a man convicted of murder into life imprisonment and acquitted the other accused for lack of evidence