MUNEER HUSSEIN
Status: executed on april 28, 2015.
Mentally ill prisoner becomes 100th person to be executed
On April 28 2015, an extremely mentally ill man became the 100th prisoner executed since the
moratorium's end. Muneer Hussein entered the criminal justice system after a lifetime of serious mental
illness. Despite numerous indicators, he remained undiagnosed until 2014, and only then by a
psychiatrist retained by his new counsel. Previously, his counsel at trial had failed to request a medical
examination, having also failed to reach out to the family members who would have informed him of
Muneer's erratic and strange behavior. Yet even upon a formal diagnosis, the Pakistani government
refused to conduct the appropriate tests or provide Muneer with the requisite care. On April 28, 2015,
Pakistan executed Muneer.
According to his uncle, Muneer did not comprehend fully that he was sentenced to die.
“Muneer seems to know that he might be executed… He does not
seem to show the panic or fear that I would expect . . . . I feel that he
does not fully understand what is going on and is simply going along
with what he has been told by other people.”
A “MOST SERIOUS CRIME”:
PAKISTAN'S UNLAWFUL USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY 34
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