Poor legal defence the spotlight in death penalty case before the US SC
The US Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a death penalty case that focuses on a key inequity in the US legal system: the fairness of condemning to death someone…
Poor legal defence the spotlight in death penalty case before the US SC
The US Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a death penalty case that focuses on a key inequity in the US legal system: the fairness of condemning to death someone…
Death penalty
Fifty-seven years ago, Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi SS leader and the ‘architect’ of the Holocaust was sentenced to death by the Jerusalem District Court. He was convicted on 15…
Reviewing the death penalty
Iqbal Bano is tired. For a 77-year-old woman with chronic joint pain, insomnia and limited means, the weekly visit to Kot Lakhpat Jail – which she has been making for…
Death penalty debate
Is there any criminal act which is so horrendous or horrific that it justifies the death penalty? With the mass murder of innocent children in Peshawar and a state under…
Courts and the death penalty
October 10 — the annual world day against the death penalty observed yesterday — came this year at an important time in the debate about capital punishment in Pakistan. Just…
India gang-rape sentences revive death penalty debate
"Hang the rapists - we want Justice," demonstrators chanted after the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December, as political leaders, the victim's family and activists called…
Death penalty should end
Last Thursday Pakistan reported its first execution in four years. Muhammad Hussain was hanged in Mianwali jail thus ending the tacit moratorium the government has observed since 2008 when Gen…
Death penalty is odious
By secretly hanging Ajmal Kasab for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the Indian government committed a constitutional impropriety and virtually ensured that the attacks’ masterminds wouldn’t be brought to justice.…
The penalty of death
Muhammad Azam has spent more years in a death row cell in Karachi than he has outside prison. Jail records trace his journey into a broken criminal justice system to…
