WEB DESK
Pakistan has become the fifth most prolific executioner in the world by executing 465 prisoners since lifting a moratorium on death penalty in 2014. According to an organisation working for prisoners’ rights, Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), in a report said, the use of death penalty has failed to curb crime, including terrorism.
The report said, execution is exceedingly used as a political tool, sometimes even as a jail overcrowding solution. It said that the Pakistani government justifies lifting of the moratorium by claiming it is necessary to deter terrorist threat to the country.
JPP Executive Director Sarah Belal said, Pakistan’s troubling and continued use of the death penalty has continuously fallen short of meeting its international human rights commitments and fair trial standards.