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
- APRIL 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court convicted four workers of the...
An anti-terrorism court convicted four workers of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi handing down capital punishment to two of them and life imprisonment to the others in five cases of sectarian killings
- APRIL 12, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan condemned seven...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan condemned seven activists of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan [militant outfit of Sunni sect] to death for hurling hand-grenades at a religious gathering resulting in the death of a person
- APRIL 6, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani President Gen
Pakistani President Gen
- APRIL 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The trial of British born Omar Saeed Sheikh and three...
The trial of British born Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices accused of murdering the American reporter Daniel Pearl opened in Karachi amid tight security but was adjourned after just one hour
- APRIL 4, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani High Court rejected an appeal for an open...
A Pakistani High Court rejected an appeal for an open court trial of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamic militant charged with the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl
- APRIL 3, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A condemned prisoner involved in the killing of two...
A condemned prisoner involved in the killing of two brothers was executed in the central jail of Gujranwala
- MARCH 31, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Pakistan sentenced to death Falak Sher and...
A court in Pakistan sentenced to death Falak Sher and Allah Ditta for the double murder of Shahbaz and Bashir following a minor dispute
- MARCH 29, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The British-born militant Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was...
The British-born militant Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged in Pakistan with the kidnapping and murder of the US journalist Daniel Pearl, told the judge at the closed hearing in court in Karachi that he did not recognise the court, adding: "I request my
- MARCH 29, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Ejaz was condemned to death by a Lahore court...
Muhammad Ejaz was condemned to death by a Lahore court for the murder of Maqbool Ahmad on August 10, 1999
- MARCH 29, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorist court in Pakistan sentenced to death...
An anti-terrorist court in Pakistan sentenced to death a man on four counts of murder
- MARCH 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi...
A division bench of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench comprising Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan and Justice Mian Mohammed Jehangir commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of murder to life imprisonment
- MARCH 27, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Human Right Commission of Pakistan released its...
The Human Right Commission of Pakistan released its report on the state of human rights in Pakistan, stating that overall the picture of the human rights in the country remained "bleak" as the military government lacked will to achieve what it publicly sa
- MARCH 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a murder case...
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a murder case and upheld the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) condemning Zulfiqar Ali alias Bhutto to death
- MARCH 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British Islamist who confessed...
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British Islamist who confessed to masterminding the kidnapping of American reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan was charged with his murder and faces execution if convicted
- MARCH 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A British-Born man was indicted in the US in connection...
A British-Born man was indicted in the US in connection with the kidnapping in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl whose murder was later filmed on video tape
- MARCH 9, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional Session Judge in Rawalpindi, Shahzad...
The Additional Session Judge in Rawalpindi, Shahzad Pervez Abbasi, condemned Dr
- MARCH 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Attock District and Session Judge, Attock Manzoor...
The Attock District and Session Judge, Attock Manzoor Hussain Malik, condemned Ijaz Khan and Babar Zahir to death on separate murder charges
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Channel 4 [UK TV station] screened Lahore Law, a three-part...
Channel 4 [UK TV station] screened Lahore Law, a three-part documentary filmed in Pakistan's Civil and Criminal Courts
- FEBRUARY 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions Judge, Sohail Nasir, in Attock,...
An Additional Sessions Judge, Sohail Nasir, in Attock, Pakistan gave the death sentence to [a man identified only as] Pervez for an honour killing
- FEBRUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In Lahore, Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed...
In Lahore, Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Maroof Ahmad Ali condemned Muhammad Khalid Saifullah to death for murdering his wife
- JANUARY 21, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An activist of a banned extremist organisation, convicted...
An activist of a banned extremist organisation, convicted of killing two policemen, will be executed on January 22 after President Pervez Musharraf rejected his mercy petition, police said
- JANUARY 13, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ikram of the Special Anti-Terrorism...
Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ikram of the Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Faisalabad, gave the death sentence to Muhammad Ali for the murder of Muhammad Khan on March 31, 1999 during a robbery on the victim's property
- JANUARY 8, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Passing judgment in a murder-cum-robbery case Anti...
Passing judgment in a murder-cum-robbery case Anti Terrorist Court Judge Ch
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
749 Death sentences in 2001, till November 45 people...
749 Death sentences in 2001, till November 45 people were executed and the country's death row population was raised by another 591 convicts
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Child smuggling can carry the death penalty in Pakistan
Child smuggling can carry the death penalty in Pakistan
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, remained...
The Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, remained largely unimplemented
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Under the Islamic Hudd Ordinance of 1979, death is...
Under the Islamic Hudd Ordinance of 1979, death is the only punishment for those found guilty of gang rapes involving at least two or more perpetrators
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani judges handed down a total of more than 4,000...
Pakistani judges handed down a total of more than 4,000 death sentences, in trials that international rights groups complain were often miscarriages of justice
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH 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, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Smuggling more than a kilo of heroin carries the death...
Smuggling more than a kilo of heroin carries the death penalty in Pakistan