2015: Four more in Pakistan, but not Shafqat Hussain
March 19th, 2015 Headsman
In what by this week’s measure constitutes a slackening pace, Pakistan hanged four more prisoners today, all for murder: Gulistan Zaman, Abdul Sattar, and brothers Mohammad Asghar and Ghulam Mohammad.
Meanwhile, the controversial scheduled Thursday hanging of Shafqat Hussain was postponed for further investigation by the Interior Minister at the very last moment.
“They dressed him up in white uniform for the execution,” Hussain’s brother* told the press. “Then they asked him to write his last will. He wrote: ‘I am innocent. They want to hang me for a crime I have not committed, to save others who have been freed.'”
Shafqat Hussain’s family reportedly produced a birth certificate supporting its contention that Hussain was 14 when arrested. Pakistan has contended that he was 23.
Shafqat Hussain
* Some news stories are naming that brother as “Gul Zaman” which is also the name reported for one of the killers hanged today. I’m not sure if this is media sloppiness, or if there are two distinct people involved in the day’s drama who happen to share a name.
On this day..
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- 1819: John Van Alstine - 2019
- 1901: George Parker, drunk marine - 2018
- 1824: David Howe, bitter debtor - 2017
- 1875: Jesse Fouks, for murdering the Herndon family - 2016
- 1330: Edmund of Woodstock, family man - 2014
- 1866: John Dunn, teenage bushranger - 2013
- 1875: Tiburcio Vasquez, California bandido - 2012
- 1906: Pyotr Schmidt, Sevastopol uprising leader - 2011
- 1945: Friedrich Fromm, Claus von Stauffenberg's executioner - 2010
- 1938: A pig, experimentally - 2009
- 1600: Linköping Bloodbath, the dawn of Sweden's glory - 2008
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Murder,Pakistan,Ripped from the Headlines
Tags: 2010s, 2015, literally executed today, march 19, shafqat hussain
