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Mamnoon Hussain stops paraplegic convict Abdul Basit’s death sentence

Mamnoon Hussain stops paraplegic convict Abdul Basit's death sentence | TheNewsTribe.com

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain stopped implementation of the death sentence of  paraplegic convict, Abdul Basit, for two months.

He also ordered an inquiry into the convict’s health.

Earlier, court issues black warrants of Abdul Basit, paraplegic prisoner and ordered to hang on Wednesday.

The paraplegic prisoner, who has been wheel chair bound since 2010, his  execution got temporarily suspended.

Abdul Basit could not be hanged in compliance with the jail manual because he was in a wheelchair, a magistrate said when ordering the postponement for second time in September.

Pakistan’s prison guidelines require that a prisoner stand on the gallows.

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