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
MAY 10, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF TWO MURDERERS TO LIFE TERM
The Sindh High Court on May 8, 2023 commuted the death penalty of two appellants to life imprisonment in a murder case.
APRIL 27, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE INTO LIFE TERM IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
The Sindh High Court on April 17, 2023 commuted the death sentence handed down to a man into life imprisonment in a triple murder case.
APRIL 18, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SINDH HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
The Sindh High Court on April 5, 2023 upheld the death sentence handed down to a man by the trial court in a double murder case.
APRIL 13, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING HIS MINOR DAUGHTER
A man was sentenced to death in Pakistan on April 7, 2023 for raping his minor daughter in the country's Punjab province.
- MARCH 30, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY LARKANA COURT FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
The Model Criminal Trial Court, Larkana, on 29 March 2023 awarded death sentence to three suspects and imposed on them Rs1,500,000 fine each after finding them guilty of killing a police constable Nadeem Lashari over a land dispute.
MARCH 27, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE OVER BLASPHEMOUS CONTENT ON WHATSAPP
A Muslim man in Pakistan has been awarded a death sentence over blasphemous content on a WhatsApp group.
MARCH 20, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ZAHIR JAFFER GETS DOUBLE DEATH SENTENCE IN NOOR MUKADAM MURDER CASE
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on 13 March 2023 maintained the death sentence of accused Zahir Jaffar in the Noor Mukadam murder case, upholding the trial court's decision.
MARCH 8, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE AWARDED DEATH PENALTY IN JOHAR TOWN BLAST CASE
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 7 March 2023 convicted three more accused persons involved in Johar Town bomb blast case.
MARCH 1, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN
A court in Pakistan on 24 February 2023 sentenced a man to death for murdering a woman in limits of Attock City police station on 12 April 2022.
- JANUARY 24, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN TIGHTENS BLASPHEMY LAWS THAT ALREADY CARRY DEATH PENALTY
In a move that has alarmed human rights activists in Pakistan, the Shehbaz Sharif government has approved a bill that will strengthen the country's contentious anti-blasphemy laws.
- JANUARY 19, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR HONOUR KILLINGS
A Khyber court on 19 January 2023 convicted a resident of killing his sister and another person in the name of family honour and sentenced him to death.
DECEMBER 29, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRANSGENDER PERSON IN CHARSADDA
A district and sessions judge in Charsadda on 23 December 2022 convicted a man for killing a transgender person last year and awarded him death sentence with a fine of Rs1 million.
DECEMBER 21, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS
The National Assembly on 20 December 2022 approved “The Control of Narcotics Substance (Amendment) Bill, 2022,” abolishing death sentence for illicit trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic drugs.
- DECEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON TWO COUNTS IN RAPE-CUM-DOUBLE MURDER CASE
A Rawalpindi district and sessions court on 29 November 2022 handed down death penalty on two counts to an accused involved in a rape-cum-double murder case.
NOVEMBER 17, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DUAL NATIONAL WAJIHA SWATI’S HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Rizwan Habib, the widower of and prime accused in the murder of Wajiha Swati, was sentenced to death and 10 years imprisonment on 12 November 2022.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH FOR ATTACK TARGETING CHINESE ENGINEERS
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has awarded death sentences to two men accused of killing 13 people in a suicide attack last year, including nine Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project.
OCTOBER 13, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PRESIDENT REJECTS MERCY APPEAL OF DEATH ROW CONVICT
Pakistan’s President Dr Arif Alvi on 13 October 2022 rejected the mercy appeal of a person convicted in murder and bank robbery case.
OCTOBER 3, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SON CONVICTED TO DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING PARENTS IN DUKKI BALOCHISTAN
A court in Balochistan’s Dukki district convicted a son of the death sentence for killing his parents, Quetta Voice reported on 30 September 2022.
- OCTOBER 2, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Hyderabad on 29 September 2022 awarded death sentence to the prime accused, and 7-years imprisonment to the co-accused in the rape and murder case of a girl child.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Peshawar Child Protection Court (CPC) has awarded death sentence to a man who brutally killed a seven-year-old girl and a woman in tehsil Shabqadar, district Charsadda, sources said on 25 September 2022.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
The Sindh High Court (SHC), while partially rejecting the appeal of three murder convicts on 14 September 2022, commuted their death sentence into life-imprisonment.
JULY 21, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING EX-WIFE, HER FATHER
A sessions court in Faisalabad awarded death sentence on two counts, life imprisonment to a man for killing his ex-wife and her father in the limits of Madina Town police station.
JULY 12, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: LAHORE COURT SENTENCES CHRISTIAN MAN TO DEATH OVER BLASPHEMY CHARGES
A court in Lahore on 4 July 2022 sentenced Ashfaq Masih to death by hanging.
JULY 5, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH TWICE FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING MINOR BOY IN QUETTA
An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Quetta on 30 June 2022 awarded a double death sentence to four accused of kidnapping and murdering a minor child.
JUNE 16, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COP
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) sentenced on 14 June 2022 an accused to death for murdering a police official in the Gulshan-e-Behar neighbourhood in August last year.
- JUNE 13, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS IN BLASPHEMY CASE
A Pakistani high court has upheld the death sentence of two Christian brothers convicted for uploading blasphemous content on social media in 2011.
- JUNE 1, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COP SENTENCED TO DEATH, ANOTHER GETS LIFE TERM FOR MURDERING TEENAGE STUDENT
A district court on 30 May 2022 awarded capital punishment to a police constable and life imprisonment to a volunteer cop for the Police Qaumi Razakar (PQR) for murdering a teenage student and wounding another in an alleged fake encounter in Gulshan-e-Iqb
- APRIL 20, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KILLING OF SRI LANKAN
A Pakistan court on 18 April 2022 sentenced six people to death and nine others to life in prison after convicting them for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy.
MARCH 31, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PLAN TO BOMB THE SINDH ASSEMBLY
Two terrorists on 30 March 2022 were sentenced to death for their plot to blow up the Sindh Assembly and other government buildings in Karachi, while their three accomplices will serve three rigorous life sentences.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BEHEADING GIRLFRIEND
A Pakistan court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death on 24 February 2022, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation.