Kamaruzzaman execution only ‘a matter of time’: AG

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam (c) talks to media on Monday after the Supreme Court upheld verdict of capital punishment to Jamaat leader and war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for his crimes against humanity. Photo: STAR

The execution of death row convict Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is only “a matter of time”, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said today

But it depends on the government decision, the attorney general replying to queries from reporters at his office in the afternoon.

“I cannot agree that jail authorities cannot do anything before getting the full verdict,” Alam said.

About the presidential clemency, the attorney general said Kamaruzzaman can seek the mercy and for that he did not need the full verdict but he must admit his guilt.

He reiterated his claimed that Kamaruzzaman do not have the right to move any review petition with the apex court against its verdict as per the constitution.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death penalty of Kamaruzzaman awarded to him by a war crimes tribunal last year for abducting, torturing and killing freedom fighters, intellectuals and pro-liberation people in 1971.