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
- APRIL 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Four [unidentified] Pakistani men were sentenced to...
Four [unidentified] Pakistani men were sentenced to death for drug dealing by a United Arab Emirates court
- APRIL 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Faisal Maseeh was condemned to capital punishment by...
Faisal Maseeh was condemned to capital punishment by Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for stabbing to death Muhammad Ashraf while he was sleeping in his house in the Harbanspura area over a minor dispute in 1997
- APRIL 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani prosecutors appealed against the life jail...
Pakistani prosecutors appealed against the life jail term for deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, seeking the death sentence for his hijacking and terrorism convictions
- APRIL 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Some 50 children on death row may be the immediate...
Some 50 children on death row may be the immediate beneficiaries of the military government's plan to scrap the obsolete juvenile justice system and bring it in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, of which Pakistan is a signatory
- APRIL 15, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The District and Session court in Faisalabad gave the...
The District and Session court in Faisalabad gave the death penalty to Afzal Ahmad for a double-murder case
- APRIL 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed another man, a Saudi Interior Ministry statement said
- APRIL 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Munshi Khan and Alam Sher were sentenced to death by...
Munshi Khan and Alam Sher were sentenced to death by the District and Sessions court in Jouharabad
- APRIL 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Five men were given the death penalty for a dacoity...
Five men were given the death penalty for a dacoity cum murder case
- APRIL 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge in Jhang, Sohaib...
Additional District and Sessions Judge in Jhang, Sohaib Ahmed Roomi, condemned Muhammad Afzal to death for murdering pregnantwife, Kausar Bibi
- APRIL 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Two kidnappers, Nazar Mohammad and Ajab Khan, were...
Two kidnappers, Nazar Mohammad and Ajab Khan, were given capital punishment by a Special Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi
- APRIL 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Court for Suppression of Terroristic Activitiesin...
A Special Court for Suppression of Terroristic Activitiesin Faisalabad handed out a death sentence to Ghulam Murtaza for murder
- APRIL 8, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced to death one [identified only as] Latif in a murder case
- APRIL 6, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Karachi found ousted prime minister Nawaz...
A court in Karachi found ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif guilty of terrorism and hijacking and sentenced him to life imprisonment
- APRIL 5, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani President Rafiq Tarar stayed the execution...
Pakistani President Rafiq Tarar stayed the execution of Niaz Ahmed till April 26
- APRIL 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Liaquat Ali of the Lahore Additional District...
Judge Liaquat Ali of the Lahore Additional District and Sessions court, condemned [a man identified only as] Mushtaq, alias Bao, to capital punishment for murder
- APRIL 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Lahore Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Mehmood...
The Lahore Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa handed out a death sentences to four persons foundguilty of kidnapping for ransom
- APRIL 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three persons were sentenced to death in two different...
Three persons were sentenced to death in two different murder cases by the Additional Session Courts in Faisalabad
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions court in Pasrur handed out a...
An Additional Sessions court in Pasrur handed out a death sentence to Waheed Murad for murder
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Tariq Iqbal was condemned to death by an Additional...
Tariq Iqbal was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
- MARCH 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Session court in Faisalabad, handed out...
An Additional Session court in Faisalabad, handed out the death penalty to Ramazan Khalid of Nishatabad for murder
- MARCH 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special...
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special Anti Terrorist court in Lahore
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as...
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as detrimental to 'Shariat' a Lahore court verdict convicting serial child killer Javed Iqbal to death by strangulation, suffering the same fate as his victims
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar and Nawaz to death for an abduction cum rape case
- MARCH 24, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by...
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned two men [identified only as] Zulifqar and Nasir to death in a rape cum murder case
- MARCH 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Condemned serial killer Javed Iqbal, 38, appealed his...
Condemned serial killer Javed Iqbal, 38, appealed his March 16 death sentence for the murders of 100 runaway children
- MARCH 16, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Lahore courtordered a serial killer who had confessed...
A Lahore courtordered a serial killer who had confessed to killing more than 100 children to 100 death sentences in which he was to die in the same manner he killed his victims
- MARCH 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital...
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital punishment by an additional district and sessions court in Quetta
- MARCH 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death...
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death Ali Dhandho in a case of kidnapping for ransom
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed...
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed condemned to death a woman [identified only as] Robina for murder