Death penalty: 120 mercy appeals sent to PM for consideration
Earlier today, sources in PM House said 17 convicted terrorists will be executed in the next few days
ISLAMABAD:
A day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced to lift the ban on death penalties in terrorism cases, the Interior Ministry on Thursday forwarded 120 mercy appeals to the premier for consideration, Express News reported.
After a six-year moratorium on execution of death penalties, Prime Minister Nawaz on Wednesday allowed capital punishment for those who have already been sentenced to death in terrorism cases.
The move came following Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’s devastating attack on the Army Public School and College in Peshawar on Tuesday which killed 148, people most of them children.
Earlier today, sources in the PM House told The Express Tribune, seventeen convicted terrorists, whose appeals and mercy petitions have been dismissed, will be executed in the next few days.
Sources said the premier has been apprised of the first group of militants to be hanged and that the process will take a few days. “Their death warrants will be issued and their relatives will be called in to have their last meeting with them,” sources added.
Since the 2008 moratorium in Pakistan, only one man was executed in 2012. There are more than 8,000 convicted on death row; however, due to the moratorium their executions could not be carried out.
The prime minister removed the moratorium on terror-related cases, but not on other offenses.
Mercy pleas of six prisoners in Sindh rejected
The mercy pleas of at least six prisoners who are on death row in two different jails in Sindh have been rejected by President Mamnoon Hussain, Express News reported.
Two of the prisoners are currently being held in the Karachi Central Jail, while the other four are in the Sukkur Central Jail.
As a result of the horrific attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in which 148 people, including 132 children, were killed in cold blood by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the moratorium on terror-related cases was lifted by the prime minister.
The PPP-led previous government had put the moratorium on execution of death penalties, owing to which dozens of terrorists are waiting for execution.
Earlier, the PML-N government was reluctant to abolish the moratorium due to pressure from Western countries which are against death penalties.
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A day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced to lift the ban on death penalties in terrorism cases, the Interior Ministry on Thursday forwarded 120 mercy appeals to the premier for consideration, Express News reported.
After a six-year moratorium on execution of death penalties, Prime Minister Nawaz on Wednesday allowed capital punishment for those who have already been sentenced to death in terrorism cases.
The move came following Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’s devastating attack on the Army Public School and College in Peshawar on Tuesday which killed 148, people most of them children.
Earlier today, sources in the PM House told The Express Tribune, seventeen convicted terrorists, whose appeals and mercy petitions have been dismissed, will be executed in the next few days.
Sources said the premier has been apprised of the first group of militants to be hanged and that the process will take a few days. “Their death warrants will be issued and their relatives will be called in to have their last meeting with them,” sources added.
Since the 2008 moratorium in Pakistan, only one man was executed in 2012. There are more than 8,000 convicted on death row; however, due to the moratorium their executions could not be carried out.
The prime minister removed the moratorium on terror-related cases, but not on other offenses.
Mercy pleas of six prisoners in Sindh rejected
The mercy pleas of at least six prisoners who are on death row in two different jails in Sindh have been rejected by President Mamnoon Hussain, Express News reported.
Two of the prisoners are currently being held in the Karachi Central Jail, while the other four are in the Sukkur Central Jail.
As a result of the horrific attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in which 148 people, including 132 children, were killed in cold blood by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the moratorium on terror-related cases was lifted by the prime minister.
The PPP-led previous government had put the moratorium on execution of death penalties, owing to which dozens of terrorists are waiting for execution.
Earlier, the PML-N government was reluctant to abolish the moratorium due to pressure from Western countries which are against death penalties.
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