[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Nov. 1



BANGLADESH:

SC to hear review pleas of Mojaheed, SQ Chy tomorrow


The Supreme Court is set to hold hearings tomorrow on the review petitions by 2 
condemned war criminals--Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader 
Chowdhury -- against its verdicts that upheld their death penalty.

The review petitions have been enlisted as item No 16 and 17 respectively in 
tomorrow's hearing list of a 4-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC 
headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The Appellate Division also set tomorrow to hear another petition from 
Salauddin, urging it to record statements of eight persons, including 5 
Pakistanis. This petition, filed by Salauddin on October 19, was included in 
his review petition.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin on October 14 
submitted the review petitions to the SC through their lawyers seeking 
acquittal on all the charges brought against them.

In the review petitions, the condemned war criminals sought reconsideration of 
the SC judgments on the ground that they were sentenced for "offences committed 
by others".

The SC upheld the capital punishment of the 2 convicts in June and July after 
hearing their appeals against the verdicts of the war crimes tribunal.

The International Crimes Tribunal issued execution warrants for the 2 on 
October 1, a day after the SC released the full verdict.

(source: The Daily Star)