Judges meeting convened for implementation of death penalty cases

PESHAWAR: The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CPJ), Nasir-ul-Mulk has convened a meeting of judges to review the implementation of death penalty cases.

The moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases was ended on Wednesday following the Taliban orchestrated attack at the Army Public School in Peshawar.

There are 522 convicts on death row in prisons across Pakistan. Eleven of these prisoners were sentenced to death by army courts. 465 convicts are from Punjab, 14 from Sindh, 30 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 13 from Balochistan.

According to Interior Ministry sources, mercy pleas of 55 convicts on death row have been dismissed.