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
- MARCH 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: COMMUTE DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE FOR FOREIGN PRISONERS: BURNEY
leading human rights activist Ansar Burney urged Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani to commute the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh and other foreigners languishing in Pakistani jails to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 20, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has delayed by 30 days the execution of
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has delayed by 30 days the execution of
MARCH 12, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. CHRISTIAN HANGED DESPITE CLEMENCY APPEAL
a Christian man was hanged in Pakistan, after being
- MARCH 5, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a Pakistani tribunal sentenced Anwarul Haq to death...
a Pakistani tribunal sentenced Anwarul Haq to death...
- FEBRUARY 27, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Iqrar Hussain and Shabbir Billa were executed in Pakistan for murder.
Iqrar Hussain and Shabbir Billa were executed in Pakistan for murder.
FEBRUARY 20, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN KARACHI JAIL
a murder convict was hanged in the Karachi Central Jail in Pakistan
FEBRUARY 14, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. DEATH SENTENCE TO TWO CONVICTS
in Daska, Paklistan, Additional District & Session Judge Khawaja
FEBRUARY 4, 2008IraqDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. THREE FOREIGNERS BEHEADED
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indian, an Iraqi and a Pakistani after they were
- JANUARY 29, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. NIGERIAN WOMAN AND PAKISTANI BEHEADED
a Nigerian woman and a Pakistani man were executed in the Muslim holy city of
- JANUARY 19, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
THREE ON DEATH ROW TO BE EXECUTED IN LARKANA CENTRAL JAIL
the Larkana Central Jail administration, in Pakistan...
- JANUARY 10, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING WIFE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan awarded the death sentence to Abdul Khaliq, a resident of Murree, Pakistan, who axed his wife to death on a family dispute in 2006.
JANUARY 4, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN EXECUTES MAN FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Iranian authorities handed over the body of Abdul Qayyum to Taftan police
- JANUARY 3, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN EXECUTED FOR SLAUGHTERING WIFE, DAUGHTERS
Abdul Shakoor, convicted of slaughtering of his wife and two minor daughters, was executed in New Central Jail in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
- JANUARY 1, 2008PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes...
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes...
- DECEMBER 18, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Pakistan voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- DECEMBER 9, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
ALLEGED OUTLAW PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN BARA
Lashkar-i-Islam activists publicly executed an alleged outlaw in Bara, Pakistan.
- DECEMBER 7, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI MAN CONVICTED OF DRUG SMUGGLING EXECUTED IN SAUDI ARABIA
SPA carried a Saudi Interior Ministry statement saying that the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence against Pakistani national Muhammad Amir Shahzad who was convicted of the crime of smuggling a quantity heroin hidden in his entrails into Saudi A
- DECEMBER 3, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SC STAYS DEATH PENALTY OF ASHFAQ
the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, admitted an appeal filed by
- NOVEMBER 23, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI CONVICTED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING BEHEADED IN SAUDI ARABIA
a Pakistani man was beheaded in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI AUTHORITIES BEHEAD PAKISTANI CONVICTED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into the kingdom...
- NOVEMBER 14, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a taxi driver’s killer was executed in the central jail of Sahiwal town...
a taxi driver’s killer was executed in the central jail of Sahiwal town...
NOVEMBER 10, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
a Pakistani man was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of drug smuggling, th
NOVEMBER 8, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the
- OCTOBER 31, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER
in Kasur, Pakistan, Additional District and Session Judge Abdul Haseeb Shaikh sentenced two people to death.
- OCTOBER 30, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a Pakistan national, Mahammad Ali, was hanged at dawn...
a Pakistan national, Mahammad Ali, was hanged at dawn...
- OCTOBER 26, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE
a three-member bench of the Supreme Court in Pakistan...
- OCTOBER 25, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabia beheaded by the sword Shahid Jameel, a Pakistani national
- OCTOBER 25, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN
the Saudi Arabian news agency SPA website carried a Saudi Interior Ministry
- OCTOBER 18, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
an Additional District and Sessions judge in Pakistan...
an Additional District and Sessions judge in Pakistan...
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
WOMAN BEHEADED IN PAKISTAN
a woman was beheaded in the village of Nehqai Kandau in the Haleemzai tehsil, Pakistan...