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
- 2,092
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 2,092 news items on Pakistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- 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
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Some political leaders in Pakistan urged the US to...
Some political leaders in Pakistan urged the US to spare Mir Aimal Kasi's life
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
More than 200 people protested in Pakistan against...
More than 200 people protested in Pakistan against the scheduled execution of a Pakistani convicted of murdering two CIA staff in the United States
- NOVEMBER 7, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Pakistan condemned a man to death and 100...
A court in Pakistan condemned a man to death and 100 lashes for killing his aunt and her one-year-old baby
- OCTOBER 9, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Nine men on death row escaped from prison in southwestern...
Nine men on death row escaped from prison in southwestern Pakistan but one of the convicts was captured soon after, a jail official said
- OCTOBER 9, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani businessman who fled the United Arab Emirates...
A Pakistani businessman who fled the United Arab Emirates after being accused of drugs offences lost a court battle against extradition from Britain
- OCTOBER 6, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Fakhar Al Zaman Lodhi, a Pakistani businessman...
Mohammed Fakhar Al Zaman Lodhi, a Pakistani businessman who fled the United Arab Emirates after being accused of drugs offences lost a court battle against extradition from Britain
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Hassan was hanged for murder
Ahmed Hassan was hanged for murder
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Anti-Terrorism Court in Khuzdar, Pakistan passed...
The Anti-Terrorism Court in Khuzdar, Pakistan passed the death sentence on 12 people, eight of them in absentia, for the murder of a tribal chief and two companions
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan said it was prepared to extradite key al Qaeda...
Pakistan said it was prepared to extradite key al Qaeda suspect Ramzi Binalshibh to the United States after completing its own investigations and legal formalities
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Italian police, acting on a tip from US intelligence...
Italian police, acting on a tip from US intelligence officials, arrested 15 Pakistanis allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaida network
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty...
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty can be awarded to a defendant in a murder case even when the fatal shot is not attributed to him
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers of a Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders...
Lawyers of a Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders of a village council filed appeals against the acquittal of eight of the men who served on the traditional jury
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani court sentenced six men to death for the...
A Pakistani court sentenced six men to death for the gang rape of a woman on the orders of a traditional village jury