(DAWN –
A VENGEFUL rage can never meet the ends of justice. In December 2014, the state chose a populist short cut to assuage public anger in the aftermath of the APS Peshawar attack when it lifted the six-year moratorium on capital punishment. A new report by Justice Project Pakistan, a human rights organisation that takes up cases of vulnerable prisoners, explores the outcome of the decision which had until May 2017, according to the research, sent 465 prisoners to the gallows.