03 June 2015 :

the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court declared the mandatory death penalty provisions of the Women and Children Repression Act of 1995 and the Prevention of Oppression Against Women and Children Act of 2000 unconstitutional "because they prescribe a mandatory death penalty for the offence of causing death after rape."
The crimes included under the above sections are murder of a woman or child using explosives, corrosive substances, or poison; dowry murder, in which a woman is killed by her husband or his family after suffering harassment or torture to extort a higher dowry; and murder following rape.
The apex court came up with this landmark decision after allowing an appeal filed by the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust in April 2010 challenging the High Court's March 2010 verdict, which had upheld a 1995 mandatory death sentence for Sukur Ali, a then 14-year-old boy who was convicted of the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl.