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
- NOVEMBER 30, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
two Pakistani men convicted of gang-raping a virgin were hanged
two Pakistani men convicted of gang-raping a virgin were hanged
- NOVEMBER 3, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court has converted...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court has converted death sentence of three convicts into life imprisonment
- NOVEMBER 3, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani national was sentenced to death by a Delhi...
A Pakistani national was sentenced to death by a Delhi court for causing a bomb explosion in 1997 in a crowded blue line bus, killing four persons and injuring 24
- OCTOBER 26, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's National Assembly passed a bill that prescribes...
Pakistan's National Assembly passed a bill that prescribes the death penalty for those who kill women in the name of family honour
- OCTOBER 25, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Naseerabad, Pakistan, sentenced...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Naseerabad, Pakistan, sentenced six people to death in absentia
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed on a Pakistani man convicted...
Saudi Arabia executed on a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, money laundering and incitement to murder, the Interior Ministry said in a statement
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped...
It was reported that Amnesty International had stepped up a campaign to save 10 people on death row in Indonesia
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four members of a gang of robbers ? three Saudis and...
Four members of a gang of robbers ? three Saudis and one Pakistani ? were sentenced to death by a court in Jeddah after being convicted of committing armed robberies in two banks in the city
- JULY 19, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Thai criminal court sentenced one Pakistani man to...
A Thai criminal court sentenced one Pakistani man to death and another to life in prison for the murder and attempted murder of an Indian mobster and his associate
- JULY 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced three members...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced three members of an outlawed Islamic group to death after finding them guilty of killing at least six minority Shi'ite Muslims
- JUNE 24, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a man named Hafiz Najeebullah Khan was hanged
a man named Hafiz Najeebullah Khan was hanged
- JUNE 16, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a man named Rustam Baig was hanged in Pakistan for murder
a man named Rustam Baig was hanged in Pakistan for murder
- JUNE 15, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
"Prisoners in Pakistan, especially those on the death...
"Prisoners in Pakistan, especially those on the death row, live in cramped, overcrowded cells and often face abuse
- JUNE 15, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
two brother, Dossa e Naseer Ahmed, were executed
two brother, Dossa e Naseer Ahmed, were executed
- JUNE 5, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence on Rehmat Shah Afridi, chief editor...
The death sentence on Rehmat Shah Afridi, chief editor of the Frontier Post,was reduced to life imprisonment by a court in Lahore, Pakistan, which ruled that the drug trafficking charge for which he had been convicted did not warrant capital punishment
- JUNE 2, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a man named Faiz Bakhsh was hanged in Pakistan for murder
a man named Faiz Bakhsh was hanged in Pakistan for murder
- MAY 25, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three brothers were hanged in Pakistan after President...
Three brothers were hanged in Pakistan after President Pervez Musharraf rejected their plea for clemency
- MAY 21, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Delhi Sessions Court sentenced to death a Pakistani...
A Delhi Sessions Court sentenced to death a Pakistani terrorist, Maqsood Ahmed, alias Ashraf Abbu Mujahid, for attacking a police encampment in Jarodha Kalan on the outskirts of Delhi, killing a man and grievously injuring his colleague on the night of Oc
- MAY 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted...
An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted four kidnappers and sentenced them to death
- MAY 17, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Fazal-ur-Rehman, the leader of a hardline Islamic alliance...
Fazal-ur-Rehman, the leader of a hardline Islamic alliance in Pakistan, vowed to resist any attempt by President Pervez Musharraf to amend Islamic laws that discriminate against women and non-Muslims
- MAY 16, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called on religious...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf called on religious scholars to re-examine strict Islamic laws which discriminate against women and non-Muslims
- APRIL 21, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death...
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The executions of Dossa and Naseer Ahmed were adjourned...
The executions of Dossa and Naseer Ahmed were adjourned for a month on the orders of the President of Pakistan
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal,...
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing his brother in law Sabir Shah in Okara on October 30, 1994
- APRIL 12, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes
- APRIL 10, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Dad Allah and Faizullah were sentenced to death in...
Dad Allah and Faizullah were sentenced to death in Pakistan by an Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) after being convicted of robbery and murder under section 7 (A) of the ATC Act
- MARCH 29, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted and sentenced...
A court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted and sentenced to death Zulfiqar Ali for fatally shooting two police officers outside the US consulate in Karachi
- MARCH 25, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Indian court in Bhuj town in Gujarat state sentenced...
An Indian court in Bhuj town in Gujarat state sentenced four Pakistani men to death for "waging war" against India after they were caught smuggling the deadly explosive RDX into the country in 1999
- MARCH 15, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
seven people accused of kidnapping and murder...
seven people accused of kidnapping and murder...