Hanging

SC expected to take up presidential reference next week

Eradicating suspicions of murder, it says there were no struggle marks or external injuries to indicate foul play

Officials say it was premature to say whether the deceased had committed suicide or was murdered

The prosecution told the court that accused Shahid and Zahid had killed Maqsood Hussain over a property dispute

Imran Ali raped and murdered twelve other minors

CII Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz says there is rather a need to ensure that kidnappers of children are arrested, punished

Standing committee on Law and Justice discusses Kasur abuse case

Petitioner says hanging by neck is "un-Islamic and unconstitutional’"

The condemned militants were involved in scores of terror incidents including armed forces and polio workers'...

Incident was widely condemned in Afghanistan with many saying the action refreshed memories of harsh Taliban rule

Rapist earned notoriety as "Vaseline Man" for his greasing of his body in pre-dawn attacks on women in their homes

IJT organises demonstration against BD JI leader’s hanging

Government says 38 mercy petitions still pending.

Mumtaz Qadri’s body handed over to family for burial; protests staged countrywide

Men hanged in a prison facility in Kohat for their involvement in the attack on the military school in Peshawar

Hanging comes two days after Army chief General Raheel Sharif signed their black warrants

Basic human rights must be upheld at all costs, President Mamnoon Hussain said

At least 254 have been executed since a death penalty moratorium was lifted last December

The president had rejected his mercy plea

Jail officials say mercy appeals, sent to the High Court, the Supreme Court and the president, had been rejected

Govt concedes failure to enforce juvenile justice system

His appeal before the Supreme Court was dismissed on December 3, 2013

Iqbal's old school record and a new birth certificate issued this year give his age as 14 and 15 respectively

Separately two murder convicts were executed in Adiala Jail on Friday

As many as 11 convicts have been hanged since Eidul Fitr

Two others are scheduled to be hanged in Mutan today and tomorrow .

Two condemned prisoners are likely to be hanged next week