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    Capital punishment: SHC rejects appeals of three death row convicts

    KARACHI: Three death convicts who had sought commutation of their sentence into life imprisonment for being ‘young offenders’ lost their appeals before the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday.

    An anti-terrorism appellate bench, comprising justices Naimatullah Phulpoto and Aftab Ahmed Gorar, dismissed their appeals and maintained capital punishment awarded to them by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in a kidnapping case.

    The bench passed its judgment after re-hearing appeals filed by convicts Qasim alias Umair, Farhan Khan and Raheel.

    An ATC had awarded death sentences ‘twice’ to them after finding them guilty of kidnapping a 12-year-old boy for ransom and later murdering him in the limits of Landhi police station.

    In April, 2013, the SHC had commuted the capital punishment handed down to them on the count of murder ‘as the appellants were young boys at the time of incident’ and the ‘murder was not caused due to sectarian rivalry’.

    However, the high court had maintained the death sentence awarded on the second count of kidnapping for ransom under the anti-terrorism law.

    Later, the state challenged the commutation of their sentences from death to life imprisonment in the murder case before the Supreme Court (SC), which set aside the high court’s judgment and directed the SHC bench to decide the ‘quantum of sentence’ of the appellants.

    Advocate Abdul Rasheed Nizamani argued that the young age of the appellants constituted extenuating circumstances for lesser penalty for them. He claimed that Qasim was 21, Raheel 18 and Farhan 25 at the time they recorded their statements before the court.

    The state prosecutor opposed the argument, saying ‘the young age of the accused is not mitigating circumstance to convert the death to life imprisonment’. “There is no iota of reliable piece of evidence available on record of exact ages of the appellants,” he added.

    During the re-hearing, the appellants’ lawyer did not press the merits of the appeals after the SC had already maintained conviction of the appellants, but pleaded that the court commute their capital punishment into life imprisonment, considering their young age.

    Re-hearing the case on the apex court’s directives, the SHC judges observed that the appellants had failed to produce any documentary evidence regarding their exact age.

    The judges observed that the young age of Raheel and Qasim was not mitigating circumstance, while Farhan had himself mentioned his age in his statement as 25 years.

    “We have given our anxious consideration for the determination of quantum of sentence to be awarded to the appellant in [the] present case, in which a boy of 12 year[s] has been murdered for ransom,” the judges wrote in the 11-page judgment, in which they also relied upon the judgments given by the SC, which had dismissed appeals of death convicts requesting for converting their capital punishment into life terms.

    The bench ruled that no benefit can be extended in favour of the appellants for their young ages, which does not constitute a mitigating circumstance in this case. The judges said that according to the prosecution, the appellants had kidnapped a boy for ransom and committed murder.

    “Hence, [the] appellants do not deserve any leniency in sentence,” they wrote in the judgment, upholding the ATC’s death sentence and dismissing the appeals.

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1094863/...-row-convicts/

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    Mass Murderer Hung in Lahore

    SARGODHA – A condemned prisoner was hanged to death at district jail here Tuesday morning.

    According to jail authorities, a prisoner Asghar Ali of Khushab had murdered six members of his family over property dispute in 2007 and later the trial court had awarded death sentence to him.

    Session Judge Abdul Nasir issued black warrant after the rejection of his mercy appeal. The jail authorities handed over the body to legal heirs after execution, the sources added.

    http://dailytimes.com.pk/pakistan/03...soner-executed
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Death row convict hanged in Sahiwal

    SAHIWAL (Dunya News) - A death row prisoner involved in murder case was executed in the Central Jail Sahiwal on early Tuesday morning, Dunya News reported.

    According to details, prisoner Mansha had killed a man in 2001 during a robbery attempt. The dead body of the prisoner was handed over to his heirs after the execution.

    http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/3360...ged-in-Sahiwal
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Murderer of 11 among two sent to gallows

    Two murder convicts were sent to gallows yesterday.

    Later, the dead bodies were handed over to the heirs for burial.

    The convicts identified as Captain (Retd) Zafar Iqbal and Mirza Shafique Ahmed were supposed to be hanged in April but their executions were delayed after they filed applications in courts against their execution.

    In the case of Iqbal, he was supposed to be hanged on April 25 but his execution was delayed on the directions of the district and sessions court after he filed an application saying that his family had reached a compromise with the victim family.

    Iqbal was convicted for killing 11 persons of a family.

    The convict had gunned down six of his relatives at Arya Mohalla in Rawalpindi on January 10, 1994 and later on the same day he went to village Sangori in Gujar Khan and shot dead five more members of the family.

    He was convicted for the murders and given death penalty.

    The Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2008 dismissed review petition filed by Iqbal against his death penalty and his mercy petition was also rejected by the president.

    In the second case, Mirza Shafique Ahmed was convicted for a murder committed in 1993.

    Ahmed was scheduled to be hanged on April 27 after his lawyer moved the Lahore High Court saying his client was juvenile at the time of the murder.

    The plea was rejected by the high court and later the Supreme Court also turned down his plea.

    http://nation.com.pk/islamabad/11-Ma...ent-to-gallows
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    IS-linked Pak naval officers, who planned to attack US ships, get death

    Five Pakistan navy officers linked to the Islamic State have been sentenced to death in a secret military trail for allegedly planning to hijack a Pakistani warship to attack one of the United States navy’s refuel ships, a media report said on Tuesday.

    Sub Lieutenant Hammad Ahmed and four other naval officers have been sentenced after being convicted by a Navy tribunal for their involvement in the September 6, 2014 attack on Karachi Naval Dockyard.

    ‘The five were charged with having links with the militant Islamic State group, mutiny, hatching a conspiracy and carrying weapons in the dockyard,’ Hammad’s father Major Saeed Ahmed (retd) was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.

    According to the report, the attackers were planning to hijack the warship PNS Zulfiqar to use it in an attack on one of the US navy’s refuel ships.

    Two terrorists had been killed and four others were apprehended by security personnel during the attack.

    Saeed said that the naval authorities did not provide his son the right to a fair trial.

    ‘I wrote a letter to the Judge Advocate General of the navy on August 15, 2015, asking him to provide the opportunity of a defence counsel to my son,’ he said. ‘The navy JAG on September 21 replied that the option of defence counsel would be available at the time of trial.’

    Saeed said that he was waiting for the commencement of the trial when someone recently informed him that his son had been shifted to Karachi central prison.

    The retired army officer came to know about the conclusion of the trial and capital punishment when he went to Karachi and met his son and his four colleagues -- Irfanullah, Muhammad Hammad, Arsalan Nazeer and Hashim Naseer -- in prison.

    ‘My son told me that a naval court had awarded death penalty to him and four other officers after a secret trial,’ he claimed. ‘The convicted officers informed me that the naval court concluded the trial on April 12 and promulgated the sentence on April 14.’

    He said that naval authorities did not provide him copies of the proceedings of the trial when he approached them for the same.

    The convict’s father said that he would file an appeal against the judgement before the naval court of appeal.

    He claimed that his son and others had been made scapegoats, as this was not the first time when such security lapses came to light.

    He said the five officers had been in the navy for only four to five years and they were not capable of seizing a warship and using it for a banned outfit.

    So far, Pakistan Navy has not commented on the death sentences.

    http://www.rediff.com/news/report/is...h/20160524.htm

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    Convicted murderer hanged

    TIMERGARA: A death row inmate was executed at the District Jail here early Thursday morning, official sources said.

    They said Said Jehan, a resident of Buner, was charged with the murder of his parents-in-laws. The deceased had been serving time since 2011. The body was handed over to the relatives after execution.

    The government lifted moratorium on the death penalty following militants’ attack on Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014.

    http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1230...urderer-hanged
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Murder convict being hanged today

    SAHIWAL - A murder convict will be sent to the gallows here at Central Jail on Wednesday (today).

    Black warrants for the execution of the murder convict Hameed Akhtar was issued following the rejection of his appeal by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the President.

    He had murdered an Intermediate Part-II student Nisar Ahmad in Chak 187/9-l, Sahiwal on May 15, 1995.

    http://nation.com.pk/national/01-Jun...g-hanged-today
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Killer of three executed in Multan

    MULTAN (Dunya News) – A death row prisoner involved in killing three persons over a property dispute was executed in the Central Jail Multan on early Monday morning, Dunya News reported.

    According to details, death row prisoner Muhammad Bashir had killed his deceased brother’s wife, Mukhtar Bibi, son Nasir Shah and daughter Masooma in 2004 to seize their property.

    Muhammad Bashir was sentenced to death by a Sessions Court. His all pleas for mercy were rejected upon which he was hanged today. His body was handed over to his heirs for burial

    http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/3398...three-executed
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Double-murder convict sent to gallows

    SIALKOT/SAHIWAL - A double murder convict was hanged to death in Sialkot district jail here on Tuesday.

    According to the jail officials, the convict Muhammad Shafiq had shot dead two women Bashiran Bibi and Sakeena Bibi on resistance during a dacoity incident at their house in village Shah Gharib, District Narowal in 2004 (12 years ago). The Jail officials handed over the dead body to his heirs for burial.

    http://nation.com.pk/national/27-Jul...ent-to-gallows
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Two Murderers Hung across Punjab

    SAHIWAL (Dunya News) – A death row prisoner was hanged in the Central Jail Sahiwal on early Wednesday morning, Dunya News reported. The dead body of the convict was handed over to his heirs after the execution.

    Death row convict, Ghulam Murtaza was hanged for killing three persons including Sabiha Bibi and her two sons Amir and Aatir during a robbery attempt in 1992.

    http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/3466...ged-in-Sahiwal

    Sargoha: According to details, the murder convict, Sibtain Shah was handed the death penalty in 1998 after killing his brother-in-law over personal enmity and was hanged in Sargodha District Jail.

    Both the criminals where hanged at dawn, on Wednesday, right after their meeting with their family members.

    https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/13...ties-of-Punjab
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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