Death-Penalty

Although courts in Bangladesh have delivered death penalty verdicts in numerous cases involving women, no female convict has ever been executed in the country. Since independence, courts have sentenced over a hundred women to death. However, there is no record of any woman being executed so far....

A Dhaka court has sentenced Sohel Rana and his wife Swapna Akhter to death in the widely discussed case of the rape and murder of child Ramisa Akhter in Pallabi. On Sunday, Judge Masrur Saleheen of the Dhaka Metropolitan Child Violence Suppression Tribunal delivered the verdict. Earlier that da...