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
- MAY 15, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
judge Abdul Ghayas Nausherwani of the anti Terrorism Court-II in Quetta, Pakistan, awarded the death sentence to a man for murder.
- MAY 15, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TWO HANGED FOR RAPE IN GUJRANWALA CENTRAL JAIL
two men convicted of gang rape were hanged in Gujranwala Central Jail in Pakistan.
- MAY 14, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTANI BEHEADED IN SAUDI ARABIA
Pakistani national Seraj Mohamed Abdul Mohamed was beheaded after being convicted of smuggling an undisclosed amount of heroin he had hidden in his stomach.
- MAY 13, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI BEHEADS TWO PAKISTANIS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
two Pakistanis found guilty of drug trafficking were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said.
- MAY 11, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. FOUR EXECUTED FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS
Saudi Arabia beheaded three Pakistani men and a Nigerian by the sword after convicting them of drug trafficking.
MAY 10, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED
Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said in
- MAY 9, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: NEW APOSTASY BILL TO IMPOSE DEATH ON ANYONE WHO LEAVES ISLAM
a draft bill adopted in first reading by Pakistan’s National Assembly imposing the death penalty on men who leave Islam is now before a standing committee.
MAY 7, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. COURT REVOKES DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST MILITANT
the Sindh Provincial High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, threw out a lower court's death sentence against a
- MAY 2, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. FOUR PAKISTANIS EXECUTED FOR MURDER, RAPE
Saudi Arabia executed four Pakistanis convicted of murder and rape, the Saudi interior ministry announced
- APRIL 28, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN TWO LJ MEN GET DEATH PENALTY
the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi, Pakistan, handed the death penalty to two activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group in a sectarian killing case.
- APRIL 27, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pawan Kumar Mittal was sentenced to death in Pakistan...
Pawan Kumar Mittal was sentenced to death in Pakistan...
- APRIL 25, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN COMMUTING DEATH SENTENCE AFTER 16 YEARS NOT APPROPRIATE: SC
the Pakistan Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed an appeal stating it is not appropriate to commute a death sentence to life imprisonment after sixteen years.
- APRIL 18, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN KIDNAPPING CASE
Judge Malik Safdar Hussain of the Anti-terrorism court in Pakistan handed down the death sentence to Hikmat Shah and Daud Ibrahim for kidnapping.
APRIL 17, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. FOUR BROTHERS HANGED FOR KILLING 13
four brothers were hanged in Multan, Pakistan, for murdering
- APRIL 13, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN FACES DEATH OVER SEX WITH FOUR STEPDAUGHTERS
a Pakistani man faces death by stoning in the United Arab Emirates for committing adultery with four of his stepdaughters, a local newspaper reported.
- APRIL 3, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: LAST-MINUTE PARDON SAVES PAKISTANI TEEN FROM EXECUTION
an 18 year old Pakistani student convicted of killing a Burmese friend and sentenced to death three years ago was spared the death penalty hours before his execution, which had been scheduled to take place today.
- APRIL 3, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khaled Abdul-Ghaffour, a Pakistan citizen...
Khaled Abdul-Ghaffour, a Pakistan citizen...
- MARCH 31, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED IN INFANT KILLING CASE
an anti-terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, issued the death penalty on two counts to a man for kidnapping an infant for ransom and murdering her.
MARCH 31, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY: RAPED WOMEN TO BE TREATED AS VICTIMS, NOT OFFENDERS
In a unanimous decision, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ruled that a woman forced to have intercourse (zina-bil-jabr) should not be
- MARCH 30, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
THAILAND: DEATH SENTENCE AWARED TO PAKISTANI NATIONAL COMMUTED
Thailand's Criminal Court handed down the death sentence to Mohammed Arif, 34, a Pakistani national, found guilty of murdering Priyanun Thongnakthae in a Bangkok Hotel on May 8, 2006.
- MARCH 29, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
BLASPHEMY ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH
Abdul Hameed, 45, was sentenced to death for blasphemy by Judge Pattoki in the Additional District and Sessions Court in Kasur, Pakistan.
- MARCH 28, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO CONVICTED TERRORISTS HANGED IN MULTAN JAIL
two convicted terrorists, Abdul Jabbar and Shahsawar, were hanged in Multan's New Central Jail,
- MARCH 28, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICTED KILLER HANGED IN JAIL
Abdul Sattar was hanged at 5.30am in Pakistan's Central Jail for shooting his uncle, Muhammad Ramzan,
- MARCH 20, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING PAKISTANI MINISTER
a court in Pakistan issued the death sentence on two counts to Ghualm Sarwar for shooting dead a provincial minister last month.
- MARCH 15, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
THREE PAKISTANIS STONED, SHOT DEAD FOR ADULTERY
two men and a woman were stoned and then shot to death in Pakistan for committing adultery after Islamist activists said they caught them in a compromising position.
- MARCH 12, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Mehrab Wali of Laspur was sentenced to death by the District and Sessions Court...
- MARCH 9, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Suleiman Shahoumi, secretary of the Foreign Affairs...
Suleiman Shahoumi, secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Libya's General Peoples Congress...
MARCH 9, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. TWO PAKISTANIS BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Mohammad Sadiq Chirag Deen, a male Pakistani, and Mjedan bibi Mohammad Sherif, a female Pakistani,
- MARCH 8, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Khan Muhammad Chachar was sentenced to death by...
Khan Muhammad Chachar was sentenced to death by...
- MARCH 8, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN SECOND CONVICT TO BE HANGED IN DISTRICT JAIL LARKANA ON FRIDAY
Wali Muhammad s/o Ghulam Qadir Bhutto, convicted for killing Ghulam Fareed s/o Din Muhammad Bhutto on January 27, 1992 will to be hanged in Central Jail, Larkana, on Friday March 09 at 6.30a.m.