Exposing children to these heightened penalties directly contravenes international law and runs counter
to the rehabilitative purpose underlying international criminal process safeguards for juveniles.
Furthermore, the failure to implement the terms of the JJSO not only violates Pakistan's international
obligations, but also violates its obligations to its own people.238 The execution of juveniles neither
serves the interests of justice, nor makes Pakistan any safer, and certainly does not respect the rule of law.
“I want to say this to the whole world: is this child a terrorist? He has not
attacked the army, or the government or anybody. This is the height of
injustice. They give these sentences to innocent people. The guilty
people, they don't even look towards them, for fear their eyes will be
torn out.”
Manzoor Hussain
Brother of juvenile death-row inmate Shafqat Hussain
A “MOST SERIOUS CRIME”:
PAKISTAN'S UNLAWFUL USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY 30
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