Capital punishment: Three death convicts hanged in Adiala jail

RAWALPINDI:

The authorities on Thursday hanged three murder convicts, including two brothers, at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

Brothers Ghulam Muhammad and Asghar Ali of Jalti were sent to the gallows at 5.30am in the morning, followed by the third convict Gulistan Khan, who hailed from Kallar Syedan. Earlier, the jail authorities had arranged last meetings with the family members and relatives after receiving the death warrants for the three convicts.

Tight security arrangements were made in and around the jail at the time of hangings to avoid any untoward incident. The bodies later were handed over to the heirs who took them to their native towns for burial. Ghulam Muhammad and Asghar Ali were awarded capital punishment for killing two relatives in 1996 in Jalti whereas Gulistan Khan was convicted for a murder of a man belonging to his town in 1998.



Many convicts on death row have been hanged over the past few weeks after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium on the death penalty late last year. Nine murder convicts were hanged across the country on March 18 while another 12 were sent to the gallows on March 17.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 20^th, 2015.