LAHORE:
180 convicts in the country have been executed in the last six months, however, the Ministry of Interior Affairs has announced a moratorium on executions, delaying them till Eid ul Fitr out of respect for Ramzaan.
In a notification issued on June 13, the ministry imposed the moratorium and requested all provincial governments to comply with the order.
As many as 8,000 prisoners have been languishing in various prisons of the country waiting for black warrants to be issued – many of them have been in jails since the ’90s.
As many as 5,472 death row prisoners, including 47 women, are incarcerated in the 25 Punjab prisons. Of these, 44 have exhausted all avenues of appeals. Their fate lies in the hands of jail authorities who will decide when to obtain black warrants for them from the respective trial courts.
