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PAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT SENT TO GALLOWS

03 March 2016 :

A murder convict was sent to the gallows in District Jail Jhang early in the morning. According to the jail admin, Muhammad Ali, a resident of Bhuwana had wanted to marry a married woman and for the purpose had gunned down her husband in 1998.
All his appeals were rejected by the apex courts and the president. He was hanged to death early Tuesday (March 1) morning in District Jail Jhang. Later, the dead body was handed over to the heir.
 
(Sources: The Nation newspaper, 02-Mar-2016)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.