Most convicts on death row in Pakistan should not be there
The Supreme Court overturned 97% of death sentences it reviewed last year
THE DAY Ghulam Qadir and Ghulam Sarwar were acquitted of murder after a miscarriage of justice should have been a moment to celebrate. The brothers had been awaiting execution for over a decade, only for the Supreme Court belatedly to quash their case. Eyewitness testimony against them was shaky and the prosecution case flimsy, the justices declared. Yet when officials sought to bring the pair the good news, they had a shock. They had been hanged a year earlier. No one had told the court or their lawyer.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The ultimate wrong”
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