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
- AUGUST 31, 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
- AUGUST 21, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, condemned...
The Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, condemned the death penalty for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, stating that he should be tried in an open court
- AUGUST 20, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into...
A Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into the Gulf Arab state was beheaded, the Interior Ministry said
- AUGUST 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three Pakistani militants claimed the Wall Street Journal...
Three Pakistani militants claimed the Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl was murdered by an Arab two days after he tried to escape
- AUGUST 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the release of a Christian...
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the release of a Christian whose death sentence for blasphemy led to a bishop's suicide
- AUGUST 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The former Deputy Director of the Fisheries Department,...
The former Deputy Director of the Fisheries Department, Anwar Kenneth was sentenced to death for blasphemy and fined an additional Rs 500,000
- AUGUST 13, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sindh High Court admitted an appeal by British-born...
The Sindh High Court admitted an appeal by British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh against his conviction and death sentence in the kidnap-slaying of U
- AUGUST 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The residents of Noorani Basti held demonstration before...
The residents of Noorani Basti held demonstration before press club demanding death sentence for killers of married girl Ishrat who was burnt by in laws some 10 days back and expired in civil hospital on Friday last
- AUGUST 3, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a controversial...
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a controversial gang-rape case told a court how she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint by four men whom she knew despite crying out for mercy
- AUGUST 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
One of four men accused of a high-profile gang rape...
One of four men accused of a high-profile gang rape in Pakistan said he was married to the woman at the time of the alleged offence
- JULY 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The woman at the centre of a brutal gang-rape case...
The woman at the centre of a brutal gang-rape case which shocked Pakistan made her first appearance at the trial of four men accused of raping her and 10 others charged as accomplices
- JULY 30, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional sessions judge Salahauddin Siddiqui has...
Additional sessions judge Salahauddin Siddiqui has awarded capital punishment to two accused in a murder case of Athara Hazari policearea
- JULY 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani judge sentenced a Muslim man to death for...
A Pakistani judge sentenced a Muslim man to death for blaspheming against Islam's Prophet Mohammad, the second such penalty in the country in less than two weeks
- JULY 26, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four men convicted of murder were spared execution...
Four men convicted of murder were spared execution after a new agreement was reached with the victims' family giving them clemency
- JULY 26, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four men were charged with gang-raping a woman on the...
Four men were charged with gang-raping a woman on the orders of a traditional village jury in a case that sparked outrage across Pakistan
- JULY 26, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
"This kind of violation of women is very common, but...
"This kind of violation of women is very common, but every time it is highlighted, the practice stops at least for a while, which is better than nothing," he told Reuters
- JULY 25, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani national Muhammad Qol Muhammad Nabi Fatih...
Pakistani national Muhammad Qol Muhammad Nabi Fatih Qol was executed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, after being convicted by the Islamic Shari'ah Court of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, according to a Saudi Interior Ministry statement carried by the Sau
- JULY 25, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A private "deal" between two families under which juvenile...
A private "deal" between two families under which juvenile girls were married off to old men as part of a compensation package to save four murder convicts on death row was attacked by women and human rights activists in Pakistan
- JULY 25, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four murderers face execution on July 27 in Pakistan...
Four murderers face execution on July 27 in Pakistan after a storm of protest scuttled a deal by which they sought to escape hanging by selling young daughters into marriage to elderly relatives of their victims
- JULY 24, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death sentences of 74 juvenile delinquents were...
The death sentences of 74 juvenile delinquents were converted into life imprisonment with the enforcement of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2002 in Punjab, Punjab's Law Minister Rana Ijaz Ahmad Khan said during a visit to Lahore's Camp Jail
- JULY 24, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered a probe into an alleged...
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered a probe into an alleged deal by which four men on death row won freedom in exchange for cash and allowing their victims' clan to marry eight young women
- JULY 24, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four Pakistani convicts were saved from the gallows...
Four Pakistani convicts were saved from the gallows after they agreed to pay eight million rupees in compensation and eight girls of their families as "compensation" to the aggrieved party
- JULY 23, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An ex-Taliban commander said Islamic militants led...
An ex-Taliban commander said Islamic militants led by Al-Qaeda want to strike quickly against US interests in Pakistan in retaliation for the death sentence in the Daniel Pearl murder case and a crackdown on Muslim extremists
- JULY 20, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence awarded on July 17 by a Lahore district...
The death sentence awarded on July 17 by a Lahore district and sessions court to a Christian, Anwar Kenneth, accused of blasphemy, drew outrage from human rights bodies within and outside the country
- JULY 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani Christian who claimed he was Jesus Christ...
A Pakistani Christian who claimed he was Jesus Christ and called Islam a fake religion was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by hanging
- JULY 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The leader of the militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed,...
The leader of the militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl filed an appeal in Sindh High Court, saying he has been convicted on the basis of "fake,
- JULY 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A senior Pakistani investigator said DNA tests confirmed...
A senior Pakistani investigator said DNA tests confirmed that a decapitated body found in a shallow grave in Karachi in May is that of kidnapped American reporter Daniel Pearl
- JULY 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
America is ready to drop its demand for Pakistan to...
America is ready to drop its demand for Pakistan to extradite Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Muslim extremist sentenced to death for masterminding the kidnap and murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The US welcomed the Pakistani court verdict sentencing...
The US welcomed the Pakistani court verdict sentencing Sheikh Omar to death and three of his accomplices to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The UK Foreign Office said that although it welcomed...
The UK Foreign Office said that although it welcomed the verdict on Omar Sheikh, Britain was opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances