Death sentence: ATC postpones three executions till Sept 30
Black warrants issued for the execution of two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) activists, Ataullah and Mohammad Azam as well as another convicted murderer, Behram Khan, has been stayed by the presidency.
The orders were issued on Tuesday by the Anti-Terrorism Court-III after previously issued stay orders expired. The men have reportedly been trying to reach an agreement with those aggrieved in their respective murder cases so that their death sentences can be commuted to life imprisonment and have filed mercy petitions, which have been denied.
The LeJ activists were sentenced for committing a murder motivated on sectarian reasons, while Khan had killed a lawyer in court in 2003. There is an unofficial moratorium on executions in Pakistan, in place since the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) formed the government in 2008. However, the death sentence still remains on the law books.The executions have been stayed till September 30.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2012.
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