President rejects mercy appeal of 17 death penalty convicts

[Saifullah Sani]

President Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday rejected appeal to mercy of 17 criminals convicted for death penalty.

Out of those 17 convicted for terrorism, 10 belong to Punjab, six from Sindh and one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The execution is expected to be carried soon, Dawn has learnt.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had lifted moratorium on death penalty for those convicted for terrorism after a deadly attack on Army Public School in Peshawar left more than 130 children dead on Dec 16.

President rejects mercy appeal of 17 death penalty convicts - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

No mercy for terrorists. No forgiveness.

Hang them all one by one.

 

[Kompromat]

We want only blood in return, hang all of them.

 

[Gunsnroses]

That's the spirit. Send them back to Allah who they hold so dear!

 

[TheNoob]

SEND THEM TO THE HELL THEY'VE CARVED FOR!

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

That's the spirit. Send them back to Allah who they hold so dear!

It's surprising a terrorist would appeal for mercy. Does he not want to be introduced to the God he has spent his life fighting for?

 

[Gunsnroses]

It's surprising a terrorist would appeal for mercy. Would he not want to be introduced the God for whom he has spent his life fighting?

Spot on!

 

[Selous]

So when are the executions going to start ? Are they going to be public ?

 

[Saifullah Sani]

Death penalty: 120 mercy appeals sent to PM for consideration

A day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced to lift the ban on death penalties in terrorism cases, the Interior Ministry on Thursday forwarded 120 mercy appeals to the premier for consideration, Express News reported.
After a six-year moratorium on execution of death penalties, Prime Minister Nawaz on Wednesday allowed capital punishment for those who have already been sentenced to death in terrorism cases.
The move came following Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’s devastating attack on the Army Public School and College in Peshawar on Tuesday which killed 148, people most of them children.
Earlier today, sources in the PM House told The Express Tribune, seventeen convicted terrorists, whose appeals and mercy petitions have been dismissed, will be executed in the next few days.
Sources said the premier has been apprised of the first group of militants to be hanged and that the process will take a few days. “Their death warrants will be issued and their relatives will be called in to have their last meeting with them,” sources added.
Since the 2008 moratorium in Pakistan, only one man was executed in 2012. There are more than 8,000 convicted on death row; however, due to the moratorium their executions could not be carried out.
The prime minister removed the moratorium on terror-related cases, but not on other offenses.

Death penalty: 120 mercy appeals sent to PM for consideration – The Express Tribune

 

[DRaisinHerald]

That's the spirit. Send them back to Allah who they hold so dear!

If they held Allah so dear, they would've obeyed his commands and not murdered kids left and right.

 

[Gunsnroses]

If they held Allah so dear, they would've obeyed his commands and not murdered kids left and right.

Sarcasm bro.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

https://twitter.com/x/status/545619591263551489

 

[ghoul]

Media revealed which city each of them is located in. Where the !@#$ are reporting rules and regulations? And these 17 guys are Punjabi Taliban, a dead organization more or less. Hanging them isn't really that good a news. The first person to be hanged should be muslim khan.

 

[Leviza]

“Their death warrants will be issued and their relatives will be called in to have their last meeting with them,”

WHY THEY WANT TO LET THEM SEE THEIR RELATIVES?????

KILL THEM WITHOUT ANYONE GETTING CLOSE TO THEM >>.OR HANG THEM IN FRONT OF THEIR RELATIVES

 

[hunter_hunted]

It's surprising a terrorist would appeal for mercy. Does he not want to be introduced to the God he has spent his life fighting for?

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