162
For details on Kanizan Bibi's case, please see page 30.
163
Human Rights Comm., General Comment No. 32, supra note , ¶ 45.
164
Id. ¶ 35.
165
ICCPR, art. 14(5).
166
RODLEY & POLLARD, supra note , at 314.
167
Human Rights Comm., General Comment No. 32, supra note , ¶ 48.
168
Id. ¶ 45 (emphasis added).
169
ICCPR, art. 14(3)©.
170
Pratt and Morgan v. Jamaica, Human Rights Committee, Communication No.210/1986 & 225/87, HRC 1989 Report, Annex
X.F.
171
J. Leslie v. Jamaica, Communication No. 564/1993, U.N. Doc. GAOR, A/53/40 (vol. II) ¶ 9.3.
172
PAKISTAN: A COUNTRY STUDY 310 (Peter R. Blood ed., 1996).
173
SUDHIR KUMAR SINGH, HUMAN RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN 67 (2007).
174
OSAMA SIDDIQUE, PAKISTAN'S EXPERIENCE WITH FORMAL LAW: AN ALIEN JUSTICE 20 (Cambridge ed. 2013).
175
For details on Kanizan Bibi's case, please see page 30.
176
Supreme Court of Pakistan, Criminal Appeals Nos. 414 & 415 of 1994.
177
Id.
178
See PAKISTAN CONST. art. 185(2)(a); PAK. PENAL CODE (XLV of 1860) §§ 302, 342 & 365: “This Court has every right of
examining evidence in a criminal appeal if the interest of justice so demand for which purpose each case will have to be
adjudged upon its on facts and circumstances and in case the Court reaches the conclusion that the person has been dealt
with in violation of the accepted principles of the administration of criminal justice.”
179
PAKISTAN CONST. art. 187.
180
Periodic Report of the Human Rights Comm.: Pakistan, supra note , ¶ 137.
181
Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, Aftab Bahadur, Pakistan, at 1 (Dec. 2011),
https://adpandotnet.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/adpan-appeal-case-pakistan-aftab-bahadur-final.pdf.
182
For details about Muneer Hussein's case, please see page 43.
183
ICCPR, art. 6(4).
184
Roger Hood & Carolyn Hoyle, The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (Oxford University Press ed. 2014).
185
Herrera v. Collins, 506 US 390, 411-12 (1993).
186
Lamey v. Jamaica, Case 11.826, Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R., Report No. 41/00, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.106 doc. 3 (2000) (emphasis
added).
187
Id. ¶ 225.
188
Pakistan Prison Rules, Rule 104(I) (1978).
189
Sanam Maher, Will the Judiciary in Pakistan Deliver Justice to the Country's Death Row Prisoners As It Determines Abdul
Basit's Fate Today?, CARAVAN (Aug. 25, 2015), http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/will-judiciary-pakistan-deliver-justicecountry-death-row-prisoners-abdul-basit.
A “MOST SERIOUS CRIME”:
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