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Supreme Court ends death penalty for ‘mentally ill prisoners’
The Supreme Court abolished death penalties for prisoners with mental illnesses in a landmark judgment on Wednesday. If a prisoner on death row is unable to comprehend the rationale behind their punishment due to a mental illness, then carrying out the death sentence does not “meet the ends of justice”, the court’s order read. A five-judge bench headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik announced the judgment at the Lahore registry. The decision was taken after the court heard three cases of prisoners on death row showing symptoms of mental illnesses. These were Imdad Ali, Kanizan Bibi, and Ghulam Abbas. They have spent 18, 30, and 14 years in prison respectively, and have been c

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