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
- AUGUST 13, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a debate on the proposed commutation of death sentences...
a debate on the proposed commutation of death sentences into life imprisonment dominated Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly (PA).
- AUGUST 12, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN SAHIWAL JAIL
two condemned prisoners, Abbas Ali e Amanat Ali, were hanged in Sahiwal jail in Pakistan for killing two people, including a constable in Chichawatni two years ago. Their bodies were handed over to their families for burial.
- AUGUST 12, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FIRST EXECUTION IN VEHARI JAIL
Vehari Jail officials in Pakistan hanged a man for murder, the first execution since the establishment of the jail.
- AUGUST 7, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN JERGA PUBLICLY EXECUTES 80-YEAR-OLD IN TRIBAL AREA
an octogenarian man was shot dead in public on the orders of a local jirga that found him 'guilty' of kidnapping a girl in the Kala Dhaka tribal area in Pakistan, sources said.
- AUGUST 6, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FOUR HANGED IN FAISALABAD JAIL
four condemned prisoners were hanged in Faisalabad District Jail in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 1, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
AHRC URGES PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT TO RATIFY CABINET DECISION OF COMMUTING DEATH SENTENCE
the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission urged the Pakistani government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani to immediately ratify the decision of the cabinet to commute death sentences in to life imprisonment so as to make it a law.
- JULY 31, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO MEN HANGED
two men, identified only as Mushtaq and Akram, were hanged in Pakistan for murder.
- JULY 28, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LHC SUSPENDS DEATH PENALTY OF TWO ACCUSED OF MURDER
a Lahore High Court Division Bench in Pakistan suspended the death penalty of two men accused of murder until August 3 after they filed a petition.
- JULY 23, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhary Anwar Ahmed awarded the death sentence to Nadeem Akhtar and acquitted his mother of the murder of Muhammad Iqbal.
- JULY 17, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: GOVT FAILS TO SEND PROPOSAL ON COMMUTING SENTENCES TO PRESIDENT
the Pakistani Government has not forwarded a formal proposal for commuting all death sentences into life imprisonment terms to President Pervez Musharraf, despite an announcement by the Prime Minister nearly a month ago, the country's Attorney General sai
- JULY 15, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
the Pakistan Supreme Court adjourned till August 1...
the Pakistan Supreme Court adjourned till August 1...
- JULY 15, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Nawabshah, Pakistan, two accused in a double murder case were awarded the death penalty after charges against them were proved.
- JULY 14, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
an additional district and sessions judge awarded...
an additional district and sessions judge awarded...
- JULY 11, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. ZULFIQAR ALI SHAH WAS HANGED
Zulfiqar Ali Shah was hanged, in Pakistan, for murder
- JULY 9, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
in Nawabshah, Pakistan, first Additional Sessions...
in Nawabshah, Pakistan, first Additional Sessions...
JULY 4, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. LAW MINISTRY OPPOSED COMMUTATION OF DEATH PENALTIES
the Pakistan Law Ministry strongly opposed the federal cabinet approving the commutation of the
JULY 4, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. SC ASKS GOVT TO EXPLAIN POSITION ON COMMUTING DEATH PENALTIES
taking suo motu notice of Pakistan government's proposal to c
- JULY 3, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OPPOSED IN KURDISTAN REGION
a conference was held in Erbil by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
JULY 3, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. CABINET APPROVES CONVERSION OF DEATH PENALTY INTO LIFE TERM
the Pakistani Federal Cabinet formally approved the conversion of death penalty into life
- JUNE 30, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, an Additional District...
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, an Additional District...
- JUNE 27, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions...
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions...
- JUNE 27, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
the Pakistani Taliban publicly executed two men...
the Pakistani Taliban publicly executed two men...
- JUNE 24, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission...
the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission...
JUNE 21, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. PM URGES: ALL DEATH SENTENCES SHOULD BE COMMUTED TO HONOR BHUTTO
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called for his country's thousands of death sentences
JUNE 18, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
a Pakistani court handed down the death sentence to a man convicted of blasphemy, court
JUNE 17, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYHRW ASKS PAK GOVT TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
an international human rights watchdog urged the newly elected government in Pakistan
- JUNE 10, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney found another...
leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney found another...
- JUNE 3, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 3 CONVICTS TO BE EXECUTED
three condemned prisoners will be hanged in the Faisalabad District Prison in Pakistan on June 4.
- JUNE 3, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rao Abdul Jabbar Khan awarded the death sentence to Usmani Meo, a hit-man who was already awarded death in two previous murder cases.
- MAY 28, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Pakistan, District and Session Judge Hafeez Ullah khan sentenced five people to death for murder.