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
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An alliance of Pakistan's non-Muslim minority communities...
An alliance of Pakistan's non-Muslim minority communities urged the military government to repeal a controversial blasphemy law they say is being used against them to settle personal scores
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani prosecutors said they had filed an appeal...
Pakistani prosecutors said they had filed an appeal seeking death penalty for three men found guilty of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Omar Sheikh was locked up last night in an isolation...
Omar Sheikh was locked up last night in an isolation cell in the Hyderabad central jail, a grim British-built limestone edifice that holds more than 4,000 prisoners near the heart of the city
- 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
Awais Sheikh publicly defended his beloved older brother...
Awais Sheikh publicly defended his beloved older brother Sheikh Omar against accusations of terrorism, kidnapping and now murder
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh's father, Ahmed Sheikh, said...
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh's father, Ahmed Sheikh, said that he expected such a verdict after his son was sentenced to death for murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl
- JULY 16, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan was bracing for a violent backlash over the...
Pakistan was bracing for a violent backlash over the conviction of four men for the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl, after police received tip-offs that militants were plotting retaliation
- JULY 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Religious parties in Pakistan reacted sharply to the...
Religious parties in Pakistan reacted sharply to the death sentence gievn to Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh for the killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl saying his trial was unfair and aimed at appeasing the US
- JULY 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of common Pakistanis were gathered outside...
Hundreds of common Pakistanis were gathered outside the court when the judgment against Omar Sheikh and the three other accused in the Daniel Pearl murder case was announced
- JULY 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE FOR PEARL MURDER
July 15, 2002: a special anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death for abducting and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl.
- JULY 10, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan concluded the closed-door...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan concluded the closed-door trial of four men charged with the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and reserved the judgment until July 15
- JULY 8, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani police said they had arrested two more men...
Pakistani police said they had arrested two more men accused of gang-raping a woman on the orders of a village jury, bringing to four the total held so far, but a fifth suspect was still at large
- JULY 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan police claimed to have arrested one of the...
Pakistan police claimed to have arrested one of the four suspects in the gang-rape of a teenaged girl even as the government said the culprits would be tried under anti-terrorism laws, which entail the death sentence
- JULY 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A mob of Pakistani Muslims stoned to death a man accused...
A mob of Pakistani Muslims stoned to death a man accused of blasphemy in the central province of Punjab, police and witnesses said
- JULY 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A tribal jirga (jury) may not have any legal sanction,...
A tribal jirga (jury) may not have any legal sanction, but it continues to operate in many parts of Pakistan, where tribal and feudal systems are still dominant
- JULY 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The ordeal of Fareed's family, who belong to the socially...
The ordeal of Fareed's family, who belong to the socially low Gujjar tribe, began when his 12-year-old son, Abdul Shakoor, was accused of having an affair with a 22-year-old woman of the higher-caste Mastoi tribe
- JULY 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mukhtar Mai wept continually as she described how she...
Mukhtar Mai wept continually as she described how she had been gang-raped on the orders of an unofficial tribal jury as a punishment for her brother's alleged affair with a woman of a higher caste
- JUNE 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Anti Terrorists Courts disposed off 78 cases during...
Anti Terrorists Courts disposed off 78 cases during the past three months
- JUNE 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional Session Judge, Rawalpindi Pervez Ali Shah...
Additional Session Judge, Rawalpindi Pervez Ali Shah has awarded death sentence to the murderer
- JUNE 21, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani District Judge Mian Faiz Muhammad gave the...
Pakistani District Judge Mian Faiz Muhammad gave the death penalty to Liaquat Ali for killing a retired army man Muhammad Ali on April 15, 1996
- JUNE 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A former Pakistan army captain sentenced to death for...
A former Pakistan army captain sentenced to death for claiming to be a prophet was shot dead by another prisoner, an official said
- JUNE 6, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Bowing to public outrage, the Pakistani [Federal Sharia]...
Bowing to public outrage, the Pakistani [Federal Sharia] court freed Zafran Bibi, a rape victim who was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of having extramarital relations
- JUNE 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan...
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), in its recent 2001 report, estimates that one woman in Pakistan is raped every two hours, but most sexual assaults go unreported because of the impossibility of being able to prove the charges an
- JUNE 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
With tears trickling down her face, Shiraka Bibi says...
With tears trickling down her face, Shiraka Bibi says her daughter Zafran, sentenced to be stoned to death under strict Islamic laws for alleged adultery, is the prettiest of her 10 children
- MAY 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In Pakistan, the Sialkot District Judge Nazir Ahmad...
In Pakistan, the Sialkot District Judge Nazir Ahmad passed the death sentence on Sher Muhammad for killing a shopkeeper Muhammad Iqbal, over a minor dispute in Ghueinkey village in the Daska district on January 9, 2001
- MAY 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani district court in Sahiwal condemned two...
A Pakistani district court in Sahiwal condemned two leaders of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan to death
- MAY 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani courts condemned two people convicted in...
Pakistani courts condemned two people convicted in separate murder cases to death
- MAY 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Mirza Abid Jawad Baig gave capital punishment...
Judge Mirza Abid Jawad Baig gave capital punishment to Imran for killing Irshad Ahmed, a student, over a trifling matter on March 9, 2001 in the Sahiwal district, Pakistan
- MAY 20, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Two men were hanged for murder in the remote Pakistani...
Two men were hanged for murder in the remote Pakistani town of Much on May 7
- MAY 17, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani district court passed the death sentence...
A Pakistani district court passed the death sentence on Muhammad Rafiq, alias Labha, for murder