Tag: Execution

The execution of paraplegic death row convict Abdul Basit was postponed following appeals by human rights groups, officials said Tuesday. The man's family welcomed the...

Four death row prisoners were hanged on Thursday in the jails of Lahore, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur and Vehari. The dead bodies of the prisoners were...

Four death row convicts were sent to the gallows in different jails of Punjab on early Wednesday morning. Two real brothers, Muhabat Ali and Muhammad Bashir,...

Four more murder convicts were hanged in two jails of Punjab on Thursday morning. The executions were carried out in Bahawalpur and Kasur after courts...

Another death row prisoner was hanged in Sahiwal’s Central Jail in the wee hours of Tuesday. The convict, Muhammed Ashraf, breathed his last at the...

On Thursday, Multan’s Central Jail executed a death row prisoner convicted of killing at least six people. According to local media, Maqbool Hussain was found...

A convicted murderer of at least 17-year-old case on Wednesday has been executed at Central Jail. Death row inmate Amjad Ali was hanged at 4:30am...

The execution of convicted prisoners had been suspended for a month by the federal government prior to the commencement of Ramzan

Two murder convicts were hanged early Tuesday morning in Multan and Attock jails as executions of death row prisoners have resumed after a moratorium...

An anti-terrorism court on Monday issued a fresh black warrant for the execution of Shafqat Hussain, and directed jail authorities to execute him on...

A Reuters analysis of 180 people hanged since late December shows that fewer than one in six death row convicts hanged were linked to militancy

The government had lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10, after restarting executions for terrorism offences in the wake of Peshawar school massacre.

A leader of Bangladesh's largest religious party lodged an appeal Thursday in the Supreme Court against his death sentence for atrocities committed during the...

Nawaz and Shahbaz must resign and hold themselves accountable before the law

India’s top court on Monday stayed the execution of a key plotter of the country’s deadliest series of attacks. Yakub Memon, brother of the alleged...

At least three people were killed and many were injured when police opened fire on Jamaat e Islami activists who were protesting the execution...

A new wave of violence broke out in Bangladesh on Friday as Jamat-e-Islami supporters violently stormed across the country in response to the execution...