President seeks recommendations to abolish death penalty
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari wants to replace capital punishment
with 24 to 30 years of imprisonment, and he has called on provincial
governments to submit recommendations on the matter, a private TV
channel quoted Sindh Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ayaz
Soomro as saying on Wednesday.
According to the channel, the minister said the Sindh government would
look into the matter from an Islamic point of view. He said that
amnesty for a criminal was even allowed in Islam. He said a meeting of
the Sindh Assembly would be called soon after the first week of Eid,
and all suggestions on the matter would be heard.
SOURCE DAILYTIMES
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