capitalpunishment

Death penalty not only defies international human rights standards but also fails to deter crimes, its sole purpose.

Provides guidelines for investigation of attacks, witness protection.

Parliamentary secretary calls for putting matter of abolishing capital punishment to a debate in the house.

In our society people want retribution. If offenders aren't punished proportionately, people settle scores themselves.

The moratorium was de facto, but the EU is not willing to take the execution of an army soldier as an exception.

Mianwali hanging has put under a cloud EU's trade concessions which were conditioned on foregoing the death penalty.

EU says move goes against global abolitionist trend; ICJ calls it ‘step backwards’.

Muhammad Hussain, former sepoy of Pakistan Army, was charged with killing his senior sergeant Khadim Hussain in 2008.

JUI-F, PML-N opposed to converting death penalty to life imprisonment.

Over 7000 people are on the death row in Pakistan.

EU diplomats say they publicly express their opposition, but any anti-death penalty movement should be home-grown.

Prosecutors argue death penalty acts as a deterrent; lawyers cite international precedents to show otherwise.

Criminal justice system of Pakistan, with all its flaws, gives immense space for injustice, lawyers argue.

Government has suspended executions since it came into power but hesitates to convert death penalty to life terms.

A number of Muslim majority countries have abolished the death penalty; can we begin the debate in Pakistan?