COUNTING EXECUTIONS
06.07.2017
EXECUTIONS AND
TERRORISM
15%
Executions
Executions by Court Type
6%
2015
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
ATC
Military Court
District and Sessions Court
Unreported
20%
6%
18%
7%
59%
85%
ATCs
Military
Courts
2016
2017
Criminal Unreported
Courts
7%
4%
69%
4%
ATCs have accounted for only 16 percent of all executions. In 2015, 65 people tried by ATCs were executed. From
January 2016 until May 2017, only 8 people tried by ATCs were executed. According to Terror on Death Row, out
of the 800+ prisoners on death row in Pakistan who were tried as terrorists, as many as 88 percent had no link to
any crime reasonably defined as “terrorism”.
THE POLITICS BEHIND PAKISTAN’S EXECUTIONS
Increases in executions have occurred in the weeks following terrorist attacks in Punjab. From August 2016 to
February 2017, when there were virtually no executions, there were no major terror attacks (with 5 or more
deaths) in Punjab. In that same period, there were 6 major attacks in Balochistan, 5 in KP, and 1 in Sindh.
35
Number of Executions and Terrorist Incidents by Week in Punjab
30
25
Number of Executions
20
Terrorist incident in Punjab with at least 5 deaths
15
10
5
0
Weekly Data from January 2015-May2017
2015 YOUHANABAD
27
LAHORE
15 Dead
70 Injured
0
Attack
21 Dead
23 Injured
12
3
1
1 Week
Later
Attack
2 Weeks
Later
JUSTICE PROJECT PAKISTAN
2015 SHUJA
KHANZADA DEATH 10
ATTOCK
3 Weeks
Later
2015 VEHARI CHOWK
24
MULTAN
8
2
4
2 Weeks
Later
16
10 Dead
58 Injured
5
1 Week
Later
3 Weeks
Later
4 Weeks
Later
Attack
5
4
2
1 Week 2 Weeks 3 Weeks 4 Weeks 5 Weeks
Later
Later
Later
Later
Later
3