Tag: Death row
Mentally ill ex-cop dies after spending 16 years on death row
A mentally ill prisoner who spent the last 16 years of his life on death row passed away in a Lahore hospital on Monday...
SC acquits death row convict accused of training suicide bombers
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday acquitted a 52-time death sentence convict Sufi Baba, who was allegedly involved in brain-washing of youngsters for suicide...
SC forwards death row convict Khizer Hayat’s case to larger bench
-- Medical board formed to assess convict's mental health after it was reported that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on...
Convict on death row gets heard after 18 years
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday accepted the hearing of a convict who has been on death row for the last 18 years...
Medical board recommends treatment for death row prisoner suffering from schizophrenia
A medical board appointed upon the directives of District and Sessions court confirmed that a 63-year-old man currently on death row suffers from schizophrenia...
SC directs mentally ill death-row inmate to be medically examined
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the formation of a medical board of noted psychiatrists to re-examine death-row inmate Imdad Ali, who is a...
Sarmad Khoosat to play prisoner on death row in 24-hour continuous...
Multi-faceted actor and director Sarmad Khoosat's next venture is a play titled No Time to Sleep in which he will be showing the final days...
Pakistani group appeals for ailing convict in Indonesia
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani rights group has requested Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to urge Indonesia President Joko Widodo to set free on humanitarian grounds...
US sets date for execution of Indian-American death-row prisoner
WASHINGTON: There is a slim chance of the first death-row Indian-American prisoner being executed on the scheduled date of February 23 because of a...
‘Death cannot sway me’: Jadhav told pleading mother
Metallic object in the shoe of Jadhav's wife is under examination
ISLAMABAD: It was an emotional-laden atmosphere when the mother and son saw each...
Diplomatic efforts beefed up to save Pakistani death row convict in...
The government has intensified its diplomatic efforts to save a Pakistani national who was sentenced to death in Indonesia after being convicted of drug-related...
Afghanistan hangs six Taliban inmates on death row
Six Afghan Taliban inmates on death row were hanged on Sunday, government sources said, in the first set of executions endorsed by President Ashraf...
Two death row convicts hanged
Two death row convicts were sent to gallows in the Central Jail Faisalabad on Tuesday.
The convicts, Tahir and Imran, had killed four persons in...
Mother seeks pardon for paraplegic son on death row
The mother of paraplegic inmate Abdul Basit who is on death row urged President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday to pardon her son.
Nusrat Perveen said...
Pakistan hands over body of death row prisoner to India
Pakistan handed over to India the body of its condemned prisoner on Tuesday died in mysterious circumstances in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.
According to a...
Death row convict hanged
A death row prisoner was executed in the Kot Lakhpat Jail early on Tuesday morning while the execution of another convict was postponed after...
