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
- APRIL 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three Islamic Sunni militants were sentenced to death...
Three Islamic Sunni militants were sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for the murder of three men from the rival Shiite community in March 2002
- APRIL 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sialkot Additional District & Session Judge Nazir...
The Sialkot Additional District & Session Judge Nazir Ahmad awarded a death sentence for two counts with a fine of Rs
- APRIL 24, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death...
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for...
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug trafficking, was publicly executed in a square in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, declared the Saudi Interior Ministry
- APRIL 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the...
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the appeals of two convicts Omar Hayat and Muhammad Iqbal and turned their death sentences into life term imprisonment
- APRIL 16, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Nawaz, a former employee of Pakistan's Interior...
Mohammed Nawaz, a former employee of Pakistan's Interior Ministry, was sentenced to death for killing seven members of his family because he was angered by his daughter's decision to marry a Christian
- APRIL 14, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court convicted four members of an...
An anti-terrorism court convicted four members of an outlawed Islamic militant group of orchestrating a truck bombing outside the U
- APRIL 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be hanged to death for multiple sectarian murders, court officials said
- APRIL 4, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti-terrorism Court awarded the death penalty and...
An Anti-terrorism Court awarded the death penalty and a fine of Rs
- MARCH 29, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Gulzar and Ahmad Riaz were sentenced to death...
Ahmad Gulzar and Ahmad Riaz were sentenced to death by the Additional District and Session Court in the murder case of Ali Liaqat, Gulzar's business partner
- MARCH 22, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Rafiq was sentenced to death and fined Rs...
Muhammad Rafiq was sentenced to death and fined Rs 50,000 by a Special Anti-Terrorism Court after being convicted of murder
- MARCH 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
District and Session Judge Muhammad Haneef Khan awarded...
District and Session Judge Muhammad Haneef Khan awarded the death penalty to a man known as Ladhu for the murder of Mureed Kazim in September 2002
- MARCH 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three convicts were awarded death sentences with heavy...
Three convicts were awarded death sentences with heavy fines by local courts in different murder cases
- MARCH 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Gujranwala, Pakistan, condemned four people...
A court in Gujranwala, Pakistan, condemned four people to death for murder
- MARCH 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorist court sentenced to death three child...
An anti-terrorist court sentenced to death three child kidnappers
- FEBRUARY 28, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saeed Ahmed, 28, was hanged in Central Jail, Sahiwal
Saeed Ahmed, 28, was hanged in Central Jail, Sahiwal
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Sindh High Court converted the...
A division bench of Sindh High Court converted the death sentence awarded to a man know as Azam to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of three...
The Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of three gang rape convicts into ten years imprisonment each
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An appeals court lifted the death penalty but upheld...
An appeals court lifted the death penalty but upheld a 14-year prison term for two political activists convicted of killing four Americans and a Pakistani six years ago
- FEBRUARY 15, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of tribesmen stoned to death a man after he...
Hundreds of tribesmen stoned to death a man after he allegedly killed his rival over a land dispute
- FEBRUARY 3, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The acting chief of Indonesia's National Drugs Agency,...
The acting chief of Indonesia's National Drugs Agency, Togar Sianipar, said that 20 foreign and local drug traffickers had been sentenced to death in recent years but none has been executed
- FEBRUARY 1, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
February 2003, a girl was stoned to death in Sindh,...
February 2003, a girl was stoned to death in Sindh, Pakistan for dancing at a wedding, [it is unclear whether this stoning followed a judicial ruling or was a summary execution Ed
- JANUARY 31, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sindh High Court commuted the death sentence of...
The Sindh High Court commuted the death sentence of Abdul Hussain Khaskehli awarded to him on 6 May 2000
- JANUARY 1, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan,...
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 20 men were executed in 2002 as against 45 in 2001
- JANUARY 1, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes, including...
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes, including robbery, hijacking, arms trading, drug trafficking, rape, and capital offenses, under Shari'a Law, introduced with governmental decrees, such as sexual relations between partners not married to ea
- JANUARY 1, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan hanged Abdul Sattar, a murderer of two persons,...
Pakistan hanged Abdul Sattar, a murderer of two persons, in Machh Jail after postponing his execution five times
- DECEMBER 17, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's military court convicted a Palestinian in...
Jordan's military court convicted a Palestinian in the killing of a Jordanian diplomat in Beirut in 1994 and sentenced him to death
- NOVEMBER 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Thousands of people gathered in south-western Pakistan...
Thousands of people gathered in south-western Pakistan for the funeral of a Pakistani executed in the United States for killing two CIA employees, and hailed Mir Amil Kansi as an Islamic hero
- NOVEMBER 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Softly chanting "There is no God but Allah" until he...
Softly chanting "There is no God but Allah" until he lost consciousness, a Pakistani man was put to death by injection on November 14 for the slayings of two CIA employees in 1993
- NOVEMBER 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani protesters burned the US flag and called...
Pakistani protesters burned the US flag and called for a strike in the home town of a Muslim militant due to be executed later in the day in the United States