Extreme depression: Death row convict dies of brain hemorrhage
A death row prisoner died of brain hemorrhage in Kot Lakhpat Central Jail on Tuesday following a bout of extreme depression.
Muhammad Umer Rasheed, 45, was shifted to Jinnah Hospital for medical treatment late Monday night after his condition deteriorated in the jail. He died at the hospital on Tuesday.
Hospital sources said Rasheed died of brain hemorrhage – a type of stroke caused by the bursting of an artery in the brain and followed by localised bleeding in the surrounding tissues – apparently triggered by severe depression and shock.
Later, police took the body into custody and shifted it to the mortuary for autopsy. Later, after completion of medico-legal requirements, the police handed over the body to the family.
The convict had been sentenced to death for committing a murder in Lahore’s Factory area. Resident of Walton Road, Umer Rasheed was booked under Section 302 in 2009 while the FIR had been registered against him at Factory Area police station.
Recently, on December 22, another such prisoner at Mianwali Central Jail had died of heart failure.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 31st, 2014.
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Waiting on death row to be hanged does cause severe depression.
@Wasi: Why should there be any need for torture. The man was already convicted, on death row and to be hanged, so what purpose would torture achieve. Impending death does cause a severe depression in many people.
Extreme depression aka effects of torture.