Terminal Tuesdays: Pakistan sends 14 more to gallows… but why only Tuesdays?

The Pakistan government hanged 14 criminals on Tuesday – the highest in one day – in different jails across the country.

Reports in Pakistani media claimed that the death penalty of one convict was delayed until Saturday April 25.

All the convicts sent to gallows in Punjab and Balochistan jails were involved in either murder or sexual molestation cases.

The highest numbers of death penalties earlier given in a single day was also on Tuesday when 12 people were sent to gallows on the same day of the week on March 17, 2015.

Last Tuesday, on April 14, a criminal Lonay Khan was hanged in New Central Jail Bahawalpur in Punjab province for killing his brother-in-law in 2001.

The hanging of the 14 people in a single day is the highest in the country since its government removed moratorium on death penalty last year when about half a dozen Taliban attacked a school in December 2014, killing more than 140 – mostly students of the school.

Although Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ended the moratorium under pressure to expedite justice for terrorists and militants, the death penalty for non-terror crimes was also reinstated last week.

Since the removal of death moratorium, nearly 70 people have been sent to gallows for different crimes. Currently, there are more than 8,000 death row prisoners in the country.

According to a news report appeared in daily The News,  three each were sent to gallows in Faisalabad and Gujranwala jails; two each in Sialkot, Lahore and Mach jails; and one each in Sahiwal and Multan prisons.

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