pakistan to execute paraplegic

Pakistan's only paraplegic death row inmate will be executed next week despite a campaign to spare his life, his mother has said.

Nusrat Parveen said jail officials have told her she can have a final meeting with her 43-year-old son Abdul Basit on Tuesday, before he is hanged the following morning.

Ms Parveen has been appealing to the president and prime minister of Pakistan to pardon her son on medical and humanitarian grounds.

Two months ago, authorities halted Basit's execution at the 11th hour following appeals from the family.

Basit has been paralysed from the waist down since contracting meningitis in prison in 2010 and uses a wheelchair.

He has been on death row since his 2009 conviction for murdering a man in a financial dispute in Punjab province.

Under Pakistani law, executions can be delayed on medical grounds but a convict can only be pardoned by the country's president.

There has been no comment on the case so far from President Mamnoon Hussain.

Basit's lawyers and human rights group Reprieve have argued that hanging would constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Amnesty International has called for a moratorium on all executions in the country.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says 294 people have been executed since the authorities lifted a six-year moratorium on executions in December 2014.

The move followed a deadly Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in which 150 people, mostly children, were killed.



hokay lefties....


is this right/wrong

what to do?

or should we just mind our own business and keep the fuck out of other countries affairs???

Lord Foul wrote:Pakistan's only paraplegic death row inmate will be executed next week despite a campaign to spare his life, his mother has said.

Nusrat Parveen said jail officials have told her she can have a final meeting with her 43-year-old son Abdul Basit on Tuesday, before he is hanged the following morning.

Ms Parveen has been appealing to the president and prime minister of Pakistan to pardon her son on medical and humanitarian grounds.

Two months ago, authorities halted Basit's execution at the 11th hour following appeals from the family.

Basit has been paralysed from the waist down since contracting meningitis in prison in 2010 and uses a wheelchair.

He has been on death row since his 2009 conviction for murdering a man in a financial dispute in Punjab province.

Under Pakistani law, executions can be delayed on medical grounds but a convict can only be pardoned by the country's president.

There has been no comment on the case so far from President Mamnoon Hussain.

Basit's lawyers and human rights group Reprieve have argued that hanging would constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.

Amnesty International has called for a moratorium on all executions in the country.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says 294 people have been executed since the authorities lifted a six-year moratorium on executions in December 2014.

The move followed a deadly Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in which 150 people, mostly children, were killed.



hokay lefties....


is this right/wrong

what to do?

or should we just mind our own business and keep the fuck out of other countries affairs???

Honest answer, I don't know.  I disagree with the death sentence because there can always be a mistake, but if there is a death sentence in the country and he committed murder, I'm not sure that I agree that because he got ill after the sentence it should be commuted.  I really don't know.

Erm no? Just because he's in a wheelchair he should not be executed? Don't think so!

Not that I agree with the death penalty tbh, but if that's their law then that's that.

Wheelchair or not, do the crime serve the time / or die