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
DECEMBER 3, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF 2003 RIMSHA RAPE, MURDER CASE CONVICT UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on 2 December 2020 denied the appeal of the accused in the 2003 case pertaining to the rape and murder of a minor and upheld the death sentence which had previously been awarded to accused Shabaan.
DECEMBER 2, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO MURDERER ON FIVE COUNTS
Shujabad District and Sessions Court on 27 November 2020 handed over death sentence on five counts to a killer of five family members.
NOVEMBER 25, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO ACCUSED IN CHILD ABUSE CASE
A court in Rawalpindi on 23 November 2020 awarded death penalty to convict Qari Abdul Hai for sodomizing and murdering a seven-year-old boy in a village of Fateh Jhang.
NOVEMBER 24, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: PHC COMMUTES CONVICT’S DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN PRISON
The Peshawar High Court on 19 November 2020 commuted the death sentence of the man convicted for the 2017 lynching of university student Mashal Khan, converting it to life imprisonment.
NOVEMBER 23, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COP AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR 2018 FAKE ENCOUNTER IN KARACHI
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on 21 November 2020 sentenced a Sindh police officer to death in a case pertaining to the killing of a citizen in a dubious encounter in 2018.
NOVEMBER 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ‘HABITUAL’ PAEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Rawalpindi trial court on 18 November 2020 sentenced ‘habitual’ paedophile Sohail Ayaz to death on three counts apart from awarding him three sentences of rigorous imprisonment for abducting and raping young boys and for recording and disseminating the
NOVEMBER 16, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WARDEN
The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) of Rawalpindi on 11 November 2020 awarded three times death sentence to an accused in murder of a traffic warden and a passerby.
NOVEMBER 2, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING MOTHER
A court in Attock, Pakistan, on 29 October 2020 awarded death sentence to a man for his involvement in a murder case in Rangoo Police station of Attock besides imposing fine worth Rs0.620 million.
NOVEMBER 1, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN FAMILY FLEES FOR THEIR LIVES AFTER HUSBAND SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 'BLASPHEMY'
A Pakistani Christian's wife and family have gone into hiding after he was sentenced to death for allegedly committing blasphemy against Islam, CBN News denounced on 28 October 2020.
- OCTOBER 26, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN HANDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING COP
An Anti-terrorism court (ATC) awarded on 22 October 2020 two death sentences to a man for killing a police official during a bank robbery attempt.
- OCTOBER 21, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC ANNOUNCES DEATH SENTENCE TO 3 KIDNAPPERS
The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) no. III, Rawalpindi Judge Raja Pervez Akhtar on 20 October 2020 awarded two times death sentence to each accused involved in kidnapping of 14-years old girl, student of class 8.
OCTOBER 7, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: HIGH COURT ACQUITS CHRISTIAN ON DEATH ROW FOR BLASPHEMY
A high court in Pakistan on 6 October 2020 acquitted a Christian man who had been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges in 2014.
OCTOBER 5, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: VEHARI MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDERS OF TWO MINOR GIRLS
A local court in Mailsi, Punjab province, on 3 October 2020 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering two minor girls after kidnapping them over 11 months ago.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN FACTORY FIRE CASE
A Pakistani court on 22 September 2020 handed death sentences to two accused and life imprisonment to four others in a 2012 factory fire case, court records and lawyers said.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHILD RAPIST SENTENCED TO DEATH THREE TIMES
The Sessions Court in Sahiwal on 21 September 2020 handed down a major verdict in the rape and murder case.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: KARACHI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BLUE CAR ROBBERY-MURDER CASE
A model court in Karachi sentenced on 16 September 2020 a man to death in the infamous blue car robbery-murder case.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH IN GANG-RAPE CASE
Two rapists were handed down death sentence and a Rs200,000 fine each in Sheikhupura by Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Azhar Iqbal Ranjha on 10 September 2020.
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 'BLASPHEMOUS TEXTS'
A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on 8 September 2020 sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy", his lawyer said.
JULY 30, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH ROW CONVICTS FREED DUE TO ‘LIFE EXPECTANCY RIGHT’
The Supreme Court has overturned death sentence of two brothers – Sikandar Hayat and Jamshed Ali – who have spent 27 years of their lives in jail on account of “the right of expectancy of life”.
- JULY 29, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MUSLIM ACCUSED OF INSULTING ISLAM KILLED IN COURT
A young Pakistani Muslim walked into a courtroom in the northwestern city of Peshawar on 29 July 2020 and shot and killed a fellow Muslim who was on trial for blasphemy, a police officer said.
JULY 1, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CONVICT SET FREE AFTER SPENDING 21 YEARS ON DEATH ROW
Muhammad Iqbal, who spent the last 21 years on death row for a crime he was convicted of committing when he was a juvenile, has been released, according to the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP).
- JUNE 11, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LHC ACQUITS TWO DEATH SENTENCE CONVICTS
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on 9 June 2020 set aside the decision of a Lower Court and acquitted two death sentence convicts for lack of evidence in a double murder case.
JUNE 9, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE IN JUVENILE CASE COMMUTED
A Pakistani court on 8 June 2020 commuted the death sentence for a defendant who has spent the last 18 years on death row for a crime he was convicted of committing when he was a juvenile, a local advocacy group said.
- JUNE 4, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: APPEAL FOR CHRISTIAN COUPLE ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY DELAYED
A Christian couple sentenced to death on blasphemy charges in 2014 have had their High Court appeal delayed. The hearing has been postponed for 22 June 2020.
JUNE 4, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: AZAD KASHMIR CABINET PASSES BILL PROPOSING DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD ABUSERS
The cabinet of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) on 4 June 2020 approved a bill proposing a death penalty for those found guilty of sexually abusing children.
MAY 28, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: YOUNAS MASIH, ASIA BIBI’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, KILLED IN SHEIKHUPURA
Younas Masih, 50, father of two children and Asia Bibi’s brother-in-law, was found dead on 25 May 2020 in fields near Sheikhupura, Punjab.
MAY 19, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SEHWAN BLAST
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi sentenced to death on 18 May 2020 two convicts for their involvement in the 2017 Sehwan Sharif bomb blast.
- MAY 6, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: IHC RELEASES EIGHT DEATH ROW CONVICTS
Eight men condemned to death by trial courts walked out free men after Islamabad High Court (IHC) decided their appeals during the lockdown period, IHC registrar office stated on 5 May 2020.
APRIL 20, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SINDH HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF FORMER MITHI JUDGE
The Sindh High Court on 20 April 2020 turned down a petition filed by two men, including a former sessions court judge, who wanted their death sentences suspended in a murder case.
- APRIL 16, 2020PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: POOR CHRISTIAN COUPLE LANGUISHES ON DEATH ROW FOR BLASPHEMY
An illiterate Catholic couple, Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagfuta Kausar, were charged with blasphemy in 2013 and sentenced to be hanged in 2014. Ever since, they have been in prison, denounced MercatorNet.com on 16 April 2020.