justice of the peace in Faisalabad stops execution of Abdul Basit over uncertainty on how to hang a person incapable of standing up unsupportedA paraplegic death row prisoner in Pakistan has received a last-minute stay of execution because officials are uncertain of how to hang a man incapable of standing up unsupported.
A local justice of the peace stopped the early morning execution of Abdul Basit in Faisalabad central jail a day after the country’s supreme court refused to halt a process described by human rights lawyers as a “cruel and strange punishment”.
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Source: theguardian.com