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
- JANUARY 30, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy...
Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy after Pakistan's military regime closed down an English-language newspaper for publishing a `highly sacrilegious' reader's letter
- JANUARY 25, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan executed four men who had been sentenced to...
Pakistan executed four men who had been sentenced to death for the 1991 murders of seven people
- JANUARY 16, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The government has promulgated the Juvenile Justice...
The government has promulgated the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2000, which prohibits death penalty for a child under 18 years of age
- JANUARY 13, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdel-Rahim Shah Qulshawal, a Pakistani national was...
Abdel-Rahim Shah Qulshawal, a Pakistani national was beheaded for heroin smuggling in the town of Al-Khobar
- JANUARY 8, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man and a Pakistani...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man and a Pakistani for smuggling heroin
- JANUARY 1, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In the year 2001 (till November) 45 people were executed...
In the year 2001 (till November) 45 people were executed and the country's death row population was raised by another 591 convicts
- JANUARY 1, 2001PakistanDEATH 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, 2001PakistanDEATH 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, 2001PakistanDEATH 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, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, remained...
The Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, remained largely unimplemented
- DECEMBER 24, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge Pakpattan Shahid...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Pakpattan Shahid Ahmad Roomi awarded the death sentence and a fine Rs
- DECEMBER 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Yasin and Sarfraz Ahmad were...
Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Yasin and Sarfraz Ahmad were sentenced to death by the Anti Terrorist Court
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Sayf al-Rahman Habib Khan Abd-al-Jabbar, a Pakistani...
Sayf al-Rahman Habib Khan Abd-al-Jabbar, a Pakistani national, was executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling heroin
- NOVEMBER 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
India accused Islamabad of sending death row convicts...
India accused Islamabad of sending death row convicts from Pakistan to create mayhem in the border state of Kashmir
- NOVEMBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani man was executed in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)...
A Pakistani man was executed in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) after he was found guilty of smuggling heroin into the country
- NOVEMBER 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sindh High Court verdict upholding the life sentence...
The Sindh High Court verdict upholding the life sentence for Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the plane hijacking case will be challenged in the Supreme Court, his wife Kulsoom Nawaz said
- NOVEMBER 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Salam, a drug addict who killed his own mother...
Abdul Salam, a drug addict who killed his own mother was to be hung in the Central Jail of Mach on November 7, following the rejection of his mercy petition by the President of Pakistan
- OCTOBER 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Akbar and Muhammad Sarwar were sentenced to...
Muhammad Akbar and Muhammad Sarwar were sentenced to death for the murder of Abdul Aziz on July 6th, 1993 in Burewala
- OCTOBER 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani court rejected the appeal of ousted prime...
A Pakistani court rejected the appeal of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif against his conviction for hijacking, court officials said
- OCTOBER 26, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Tahir Ahmed was condemned to death for killing a police...
Tahir Ahmed was condemned to death for killing a police constable, Muhammad Ashraf, while looting a passenger wagon
- OCTOBER 26, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Larkana gave the death sentence...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Larkana gave the death sentence to Irshad Mangi for kidnapping Amjad Khatri of Sukkur
- OCTOBER 26, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned to death Abdul...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned to death Abdul Hameed in a murder cum dacoity case
- OCTOBER 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Allah Bakhsh Ranjha was sentenced to death by an Additional...
Allah Bakhsh Ranjha was sentenced to death by an Additional Session court in Okara for shooting dead Muhammad Ibrahim over a minor argument at Hujra Shah Mauqeem
- OCTOBER 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore gave the death...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore gave the death sentence to Shabir Ahmad and Manzoor Ahmad in a murder cum dacoity case
- OCTOBER 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions condemned [a man...
An Additional District and Sessions condemned [a man identified only as] Khalid to death for gunning down [a man identified only as] Malook during a minor dispute in 1998
- OCTOBER 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Bahawalpur handed down a...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Bahawalpur handed down a death sentence to Muhammad Habib for raping two women at gunpoint
- OCTOBER 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions Judge, Muhammad Razzaq Nawaz,...
An Additional Sessions Judge, Muhammad Razzaq Nawaz, handed down the death sentence to Mohammed Azam for murder
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional Sessions court in Khanewal condemned...
The Additional Sessions court in Khanewal condemned two brothers to death for murder
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shamsher Ali was given the death sentence by an Additional...
Shamsher Ali was given the death sentence by an Additional District and Session court for murdering Sajjad Hussain
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court sentenced...
An Additional District and Sessions court sentenced Faqir Hussain to death for murder