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BANGLADESH: HC DECLARES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL

03 March 2010 :

Justices Imman Ali and Abdul Awal of the Bangladeshi High Court declared all laws with the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional and stayed the execution of a minor for two months. Shukur Ali, 14, of Manikganj, was sentenced to death in 2001 by a Manikganj district judge for raping and killing Sumi Akter in Sibrampur of Manikganj in 1997.
His death sentence was previously upheld by the High Court.
 

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