Death penalty: HRCP for stay of execution

NEWS DESK. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has noted with alarm that, despite an informal moratorium on executions, a man on death row is scheduled to be hanged in a Karachi prison on May 23. HRCP has called upon the government to stay the hanging and announce a formal moratorium on executions, a statement said on Monday. The last execution of a prisoner in the country was in 2008. PR

Published in The Express Tribune, May 15^th, 2012.