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
- OCTOBER 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. DEATH SENTENCE CONVERTED INTO LIFE FOR FOUR IN KIDNAPPING CASE
the Sindh High Court, Pakistan, commuted into life imprisonment the death penalty handed down to four people involved in a kidnap for ransom case.
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 2 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Anti Terrorist Court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, sentenced to death Abdul Rehman alias Shah Ji for killing a man who showed resistance to a robbery attempt.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006SomaliaDEATH PENALTYUNITED NATIONS. UN EXPERT SEEKS END TO DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILDREN
countries where capital punishment is practiced should exempt children under 18 -- or adults convicted while minors -- from the death penalty, a UN human rights expert report said.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS MUSHARRAF PLOT DEATH SENTENCES
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentences handed down to 12 men convicted of taking part in two al Qaeda inspired assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
two condemned prisoners were hanged in Pakistan’s central Multan Jail and the Dera Ghazi Khan District Jail. Tahir Saleem had shot dead his uncle Muhammad Latif when he recognised him during a robbery attempt on October 12, 1996.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING
an anti terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, sentenced to death Asif Patel, Faisal Ansari...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. FOUR MEMBERS OF A FAMILY HANGED IN BHAWALPUR JAIL
Pakistani authorities hanged four men from the same family who had been convicted of murdering local rivals over a small chunk of land, jail superintendent Tariq Babur Khan said.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN TO EXECUTE FOUR PAKISTANIS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Zahedan revolutionary court in south-eastern Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province sentenced four Pakistanis and one Iranian man to death for drug trafficking.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. TRIBESMAN EXECUTED BY PRO-TALIBAN MILITANTS
pro-Taliban militants executed a tribesman in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan after convicting him of double murder, officials and witnesses said.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT CONVICTS SHIITE MILITANT
a Pakistan court convicted and sentenced to death a Shiite Muslim militant of organizing the bombing of a Sunni gathering that killed 39 people in 2004.
- AUGUST 18, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘INDIAN SPY’
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh, alleged to be an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing and involved in five bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 16, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THIRD EXECUTION DELAY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW
PAKISTAN. THIRD EXECUTION DELAY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW August 16, 2006: Mirza Tahir Hussain, on death row in Pakistan for killing a taxi driver, was granted a stay of execution till October 1. Hussain, 36, had spent half his life in jail after being con
- AUGUST 16, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mushtaq Ahmed, 58, was hanged in New Central Prison, Pakistan, for murder.
- AUGUST 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
the Anti-Terrorism Court Quetta, Pakistan...
AUGUST 9, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. CONVICTED SUNNI MILITANT EXECUTED
a Sunni extremist convicted of killing a Shia political leader ten years ago was executed in in Pakistan's central Punjab province.
AUGUST 2, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. THOUSANDS AWAIT GALLOWS IN JAILS
more than 7,400 men and 36 women are waiting in 81 Pakistani jails to be hanged, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has confirmed.
- AUGUST 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THREE MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN IMAMBARGAH FIRING CASE
an Anti terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan...
- AUGUST 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. PEOPLE EXECUTED IN A HURRY
Pakistan has resorted to hurried executions to reduce congestion of overcrowded jails holding death row inmates as also to deal with the spiralling crime rate in the country, a human rights body has claimed.
- JULY 31, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FAMILY OF SLAIN CAB DRIVER DEMAND BRITON’S EXECUTION
the family of a slain Pakistani taxi driver demanded that Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man convicted of killing him...
- JULY 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. RECENT EXECUTIONS ‘BRUTAL’, HRCP
the director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said the number of recent executions carried out in Punjab province is "brutal". Rehman told the BBC News website that 37 people had been hanged in 2006 in Punjab alone compared with 52 people
- JULY 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED IN KOT LAKHPATT FOR MURDER
Abdul Rehman, a man convicted of murder, was hanged in Kot Lakhpatt jail, Pakistan, at 4:30 am.
JULY 27, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. STAY OF EXECUTION FOR DEATH ROW BRITON
Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, granted a one-month stay of execution to Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man who was due to be put to death a week later.
- JULY 26, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional Sessions Court in Pasrur, Pakistan...
- JULY 22, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. BRITISH NATIONAL AGAIN ON DEATH ROW
Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man convicted of killing a taxi driver in Pakistan, has been put on death row for a third time and will be hanged on August 3...
- JULY 22, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Additional District and Sessions Court in Pakistan sentenced a man only identified as Rafique to death for murder.
JULY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. THREE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
three men, who were convicted of raping a woman in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, were hanged in central city of Lahore, a jail official said.
- JULY 13, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER IN 15TH PUNJAB EXECUTION IN TWO WEEKS
Tauseef Munna was hanged till death in the 15th execution in Pakistan's Punjab province in the last two weeks. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002 for killing a four-year old boy. Prosecution lawyers said that the boy was kid
JULY 12, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE HANGED FOR GANG RAPE
five people convicted of gang- raping a woman were hanged in the early morning at the district jail in Sialkot, about 125 km north of Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, Pakistan, jail Superintendent Abdul Razaq Niazi said.
- JULY 6, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT EXECUTED
a murder convict was hanged to death in Balochistan’s Machh Jail this morning.
- JULY 4, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FIVE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Court, Pakistan, sentenced five men to death...