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Article: Commute death sentence of Mujib killers, says lawyer
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- The Hindustan Times
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- October 30, 2009
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Dhaka, Oct. 30 -- Bangladesh's Supreme Court should commute the death sentences of four former army officers convicted for killing the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and allow life imprisonment as their appeals have been pending for several years, a defence counsel has pleaded.
Counsel Abdullah Al Mamun Thursday cited judgments of the Supreme Courts of Britain and Jamaica commuting death sentences to life in prison due to delay in appeal hearings.
"According to these verdicts, death row convicts suffer death pain in condemned cell and hence the authorities' duty is to execute the prisoners soon," Al Mamun said.
"But the condemned prisoners in the (Mujib murder) case have ...