Amnesty International and other international human rights organisation’s all term the death penalty as a denial of human dignity. 139 countries have abolished death penalty. Of the 58 countries, retaining the death penalty, 18 were known to have carried out the last executions in 2009 ...

A petition was moved on Monday in the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry pleading it to take up the earlier moved petition for abolishing death penalty from the country.The petition was filed by Barrister Zafarullah representing ‘Watan party’, a private TV channel reported.Referring ...