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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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1 results foundAuthor: Justice Project Pakistan Title: Death Row's Children: Pakistan's Unlawful Executions of Juvenile Offenders Summary: Like 160 countries in the world, Pakistan has enacted legislation prohibiting the sentencing and imposition of the death penalty against juvenile offenders - persons who commit crimes before turning eighteen years of age. However, despite this prohibition, hundreds of suspected juvenile offenders (potentially up to 10 percent of Pakistan's death row population have been sentenced to death. On 16 December 2014, the Government of Pakistan lifted a six-year de facto moratorium on the death penalty. Since then, at least 6 juvenile offenders have been executed despite credible evidence showing them to be underage at the time of the alleged crime. This report documents the many ways that Pakistan's juvenile justice system fails its juvenile offenders and results in the Government of Pakistan's unlawful and arbitrary implementation of the death penalty against juvenile offenders. The violations highlighted in this report compel the conclusion that even though the Government of Pakistan has consistently maintained that no executions of juvenile offenders have taken place, the lack of implementation of protective safeguards and protocols particularly whilst conducting age determination investigations means that juvenile offenders continue to be executed. Details: New Haven, CT: Justice Project Pakistan, ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC, YALE LAW SCHOOL 2017. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 14, 2017 at: http://www.jpp.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/JPP-Final-Edited.pdf Year: 2017 Country: Pakistan URL: http://www.jpp.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/JPP-Final-Edited.pdf Shelf Number: 144903 Keywords: Capital Punishment Death Row Juvenile Death Penalty Juvenile ExecutionsJuvenile Offenders |