They would hit me with sticks on the bottom of my feet. They would tie my hands and feet together and run a thick wooden stick between them under my belly and suspend me like that and hit me on my feet. They even beat me with a chittar. I have scars on my wrists from the handcuffs and arm from the cigarette burns. They pulled out three of my fingernails and I was in excruciating pain. Once I was so badly beaten that I passed out. I do not remember how long they tortured me that time. They even electrocuted me. They would set out a live wire mesh and force me to drink lots of water. Basically, they electrocuted me through urination. Whenever the complainant would visit they would torture me more. I was tortured so severely and continuously that my mind 'just stopped.' They could make you say a deer was an elephant.” Since Shafqat was effectively alone at the time of the trial with no identification documents in his name, the police erroneously noted his age to be 23 years old. Terrified and traumatized, Shafqat did not dare disagree with anything that the police had told him to say for fear of being tortured again. The trial court conducted no inquiry into his young age, nor did his trial lawyer ever raise the issue of juvenility, so he was tried as an adult and, inexplicably, as a terrorist. Moreover, despite the absence of any probative evidence against him, Shafqat Hussain's counsel did not introduce a single piece of evidence in Shafqat's defense, nor did he call any witnesses on his client's behalf. Instead, amid constant requests for money, he told Shafqat that the Anti-Terrorism Courts were not designed to acquit people and effectively abandoned the young boy to his fate. Shafqat's family, who lived in a small village more than 2,000 kilometers from Karachi, were unaware that Shafqat had even been arrested until after he had been sentenced to death by the Anti-Terrorism Court. On appeal to the High Court, Shafqat's murder charge was overturned. Based on the evidence shown, the Court held that the most that could be proven was guilt of a botched kidnapping in which death was accidental. Yet the Court did not strike down the associated “terrorism” charge of kidnapping. On August 3, 2015, after spending nearly half his life on death row, Shafqat entered the gallows and was hung to death. A “MOST SERIOUS CRIME”: PAKISTAN'S UNLAWFUL USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY 15