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Mentally ill prisoner Khizar Hayat passes away after spending 16 years on death row
[DAWN] Khizar Hayat, a mentally ill prisoner who spent the last 16 years of his life on death row, passed away on the night of March 21, the Justice Project Pakistain (JPP) announced on Friday.According to a JPP blurb, 56-year-old Hayat passed away at Jinnah Hospital Lahore, where he was admitted after he stopped taking food and medication. The jail authorities reported him to be "severely anaemic and hypotensive". He was fitted with a feeding tube by the doctors, but his condition kept deteriorating and he fell unconscious during his final hours. He is survived by four children and his mother. Hayat, a former police constable, was convicted in October 2001 for killing a fellow policeman, while a trial court had handed him a death sentence two years later. According to the JPP, Khizar was first diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by jail authorities in 2008. His mental health record consistently referred to his delusions, psychosis, and his mental illness, and showed that he has been prescribed powerful anti-psychotic medication. The conditions of his incarceration made his mental illness progressively worse.
Posted by: Fred 2019-03-23 |
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