The Supreme Court of Pakistan has commuted the sentence of a death row prisoner from 34 years to life imprisonment.
Islamabad (GN News) The Supreme Court of Pakistan commuted the sentence of a prisoner sentenced to death for the crime of double murder to life imprisonment.
The 9-page judgment, written by Justice Jamal Khan Mandukhel, said that the convict Ghulam Shabbir has been in jail for 34 years and has served more than life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court said that the death penalty has been commuted to life imprisonment in several court decisions.
In its decision, the court has said that the government should take immediate steps regarding the death penalty prisoners.
The court said that the death row convicts are treated inhumanely, the fundamental rights of the death cell inmates are not taken care of.
The court said that the privacy of death row convicts is also not taken care of, all the death row convicts use the same toilet.
The judgment said that the death row convict's cell is kept twelve by nine, the death row convict is allowed to walk outside only for one hour a day.
The court said that the conditions of a death cell prisoner are worse than other prisoners, in death cell the criminal is kept alone and under strict supervision, death penalty does not mean that the criminal is treated inhumanely.
The judgment said that the United Nations made laws related to the rights of Nelson Mandela's prisoners, Pakistan is also a member of the United Nations, Pakistan's prison laws are old, which the government did not pay attention to.
A copy of the judgment has been sent to all government law officers, including home secretary and provincial chief secretaries.
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